Originally posted by wine+art: I know there are a number of WS forum members in the wine trade as well as others here with extensive reach in the business of wine.
I'm in pursuit of the '52 Clos des Goisses, and if anyone stumbles across this wine, please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
w+a
P.S. This is not a birth year wine.
This may be incorrect but AFAIK the vineyard that is Clos des Goisses today was acquired by Philipponnat in 1935 and wine was made as a separate entity from that date with the first vintages released as Les Goisses or something similar sometime during WWII.
It became Clos des Goisses sometime in the mid 50s - 56 I think - and if this is an accurate memory [from an article by Tom Stevenson some time ago] wines made as Les Goisses but disgorged after 1956 would have been labelled Clos des Goisses. I believe there is a reference to a 1947 vintage bottle with a Clos des Goisses label although there might be even earlier vintages that carry the Clos des Goisses label if they were disgorged from 1956. I don’t know whether there are vintages earlier than 1947 that carry a Clos des Goisses designation but assume there might be.
I do know that I have seen the wine that you are looking for – the 1952 Clos des Goisses - from disgorgements made in November 2007 described as the greatest.
A recent disgorgement of the 1951 apparently took place at the same time as the 52. I am sorry I can’t help with locating a bottle but good luck with the hunt although I suspect it will be a very expensive find if you track one down.
Originally posted by wine+art: We are having a progressive wine-olive oil-cheese tasting and France is up first, which is my region.
The infamous P-P Party!
Do you always get France?
Ha.. not always. I did find a new CD for our music that sounds great, and I realized just how much of my wardrobe is Italian when started looking for something from France.
I had Germany last time... easy for wine, wardrobe, music, cheese, but hell for olive oil.
