Everything about Gosset Grande Reserve speaks of quality, class and a meticulous attention to detail. The heavy, dark antique bottle celebrates the House’s origins in 1584 (the oldest wine house in Champagne) and has been a Gosset exclusive since 1736. Only Grand Cru and Premier Cru vineyards from a dozen different villages are used to create the blend and the wine rests on its yeast lees for over four and a half years instead of the usual three.

The result is a Champagne of sumptuous flavour and great complexity, married to a vivacious freshness that is the Gosset hallmark. Grande Reserve was France’s Guide Hachette Wine of the Year in 2010, beating 36000 other wines for the prestigious title. Here’s John Gilman, writing in ‘View From The Cellar’, just last month:

‘The bouquet is outstanding (as always), with the influence of plenty of reserve wines in the blend very much in evidence in its mélange of apple, peach, brioche, a beautifully complex base of soil tones, a gentle vein of nuttiness and a nicely smoky top-note. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and absolutely rock solid at the core, with [a] very refined mousse, excellent focus and balance’