2004 Champagne Gosset, Célébris, Extra Brut

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2004 Champagne Gosset, Célébris, Extra BrutA famously large harvest and one where the inverse relationship between quantity and quality did not really hold sway as this terrific Celebris so eloquently demonstrates. In 2021 this wine has enjoyed seven years of post disgorgement ageing and appears to have benefited from the experience by shunning any apparition of leafy seniority and by maintaining a crisp, honeyed, stone fruit freshness; vinous complexity thereafter and a cerebral, slightly

old dram makes an entrance with beguiling aromas of buttered toast

fine sweet

racy finish only adds to the wine's inviting personality

It is still the Sauternes of the vintage

Krug Chef de Cave Julie Cavil said 2002 was 'the last classic year in Champagne

the 2005 Petrus needs a lot of coaxing to shake loose the first wave of broody

mushroom and rosehip nuances with potpourri and violets

and maybe since 1990

firm tannin that provide a rigid backbone

but it doesn't dip as so many do in the vintage

A magnificent Pomerol

in the sense that unlike the 2005 born in a great vintage