The 2000 Clos des Goisses is officially Charles Philipponnat’s first vintage, as the vins clairs from 1999 had already been made when he arrived here in Mareuil. This is another outstanding vintage of Clos des Goisses...
The 2000 Clos des Goisses is officially Charles Philipponnat’s first vintage, as the vins clairs from 1999 had already been made when he arrived here in Mareuil. This is another outstanding vintage of Clos des Goisses (though you will hear that a lot in the notes that follow!), as it offers up a blossoming bouquet of peach, apple, walnuts, lovely minerality, plenty of signature smokiness and a lovely element of wheat toast. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and quite ripe in personality, with a lovely core of fruit, great focus and grip, elegant mousse, excellent acids and superb balance on the very, very long and now quite wide open finish. This was a ripe year, which has lent itself to the 2000 Clos des Goisses reaching its apogee a bit earlier, but all of the constituent components are in place here for the wine to cruise along at this superb level for decades and decades to come. Not surprisingly, this is another great wine.