Gosset
Grand Rose Brut
Champagne
NV

The producer

Founded in 1584, Gosset is the oldest house in Champagne, and is also one of the “smallest” of the most well-known houses, with an annual production of around 1 million bottles. Situated in the Grand Cru village of Ay, in the heart of the Champagne region, Gosset is owned by the Cointreau family and has been family owned and run since the beginning.

Gosset is famous for the very hands-on style of champagnes produced, with malolactic fermentation always carefully avoided to preserve freshness in the wines, and long lees ageing sought to give integration, complexity, and a mellow texture to the wines. The Gosset house produces a range of wines including the non-vintage blend ‘Grand Rose’ which we currently list – a rose champagne of great fruit richness yet balanced by firm freshness. The House’s top wines include the Vintage, Grand Millesime and the prestige cuvee, Celebris.  

The wine

Gosset’s Grand Rose is a blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with a touch of red wines from Ay and Bouzy to give colour. Malolactic fermentation is always avoided to preserve freshness in the wine, and around 3 years of lees ageing, in the deep Champagne cellars, gives complexity and a mellow texture. Grand Rose is a fruit-driven style, redolent of wild red berries and sweet spices, with an opulent yet refreshing and linear palate.

We choose our wines based on a range of criteria (see how we choose our wines) of which critic scores is just one. Rather than simply highlight the best score to promote a wine, our average critic score is calculated from the scores provided by several respected wine critics, who we follow for specific regions. They do not represent all critic scores and, wherever possible, we try and give more weight to more recent reviews. Where appropriate we consider market-based scores like Global Wine Score or Wine Searcher Average scores.

As a rule, we look to offer wines that achieve a 92/100 average critic score or better and frankly a lot of very good wines simply don’t make the cut. As a high-end provider we want to reflect that positioning in the quality of wines we offer. Such wines are only a tiny fraction of those generally on offer in the market. We believe that an average score is a more conservative and representative approach, but it is still subjective and only offered as a guide to our customers, who will (and should) do their own research. We will add individual critic scores to our website in the future.