Gosset is one of the smaller producers of luxury champagne, but what it lacks in volume it amply makes up for in quality and prestige. For many collectors and connoisseurs around the world Gosset is quite simply the ultimate name in luxury champagne.

Founded in Ay by Pierre Gosset in 1584, Gosset is the oldest wine house in the Champagne region. Today the Gosset legacy is in the safekeeping of the Cointreau family, who also own and manage the prestige house of Cognac Frapin. At a time when many top champagne houses are owned by corporate conglomerates Gosset remains a reassuring hold-out, a family-owned company in which family members are directly and personally involved.

Gosset’s reputation for excellence starts in the vineyards. Its champagnes are composed entirely of grapes from Grand and Premier Cru vineyards with an average rating of 98% on the official scale. Only juice from the first and best pressing is used and, unlike most champagne producers, initial fermentation at Gosset is still carried out in small oak barrels, with riddling and disgorging of vintage champagnes and large-format bottles still performed by hand.

Significantly, and unlike most other houses, Gosset champagnes do not undergo malolactic fermentation, resulting in heightened acidity, slower maturing wines and that inimitable Gosset style -- powerful and full-bodied, of unrivaled richness and staying power -- in other words, some of the world’s most legendary Champagne.