{"id":2122160,"date":"2026-11-03T01:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/?p=2122160"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:26:39","slug":"gosset-celebris-1998-family-reserve-magnum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2026\/11\/03\/gosset-celebris-1998-family-reserve-magnum\/","title":{"rendered":"Gosset Celebris 1998: the family reserve in magnum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kept to train the family\u2019s palate, fewer than 500 magnums of<\/em> Celebris 1998 are now offered to enthusiasts. This is the first edition of Maison Gosset\u2019s \u201cLa R\u00e9serve de la Famille\u201d, recently disgorged.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maison Gosset, which presents itself as the oldest Champagne wine House, with origins in A\u00ff in 1584, has for generations kept a few bottles of its finest cuv\u00e9es. The House specifies the purpose: not to build an archive, but to train the palate, pass on a style and serve as a benchmark for tastings to come. \u201cLa R\u00e9serve de la Famille\u201d was originally intended for purely family use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For its first edition, the House chose Celebris<\/em> 1998, launched in 2006. Fewer than 500 magnums were kept before being disgorged, that is, before the fermentation deposit was removed from the bottle, after more than a quarter of a century of maturation. The cases are numbered: the one in the image bears number 001 of 491. The House presents the magnum, 150\u00a0cl, as the ageing format par excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebris<\/em> is Gosset\u2019s rare range, born in 1995. In more than thirty years, it has known only ten vintage editions, two in blanc de blancs and six in ros\u00e9, in quantities the House describes as extremely limited. The House sees in them \u201cexceptional cuv\u00e9es\u201d rather than mere prestige cuv\u00e9es.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The status of the bottle changes here. Until this edition, the reserve served the family. It is now offered to enthusiasts, gourmets and friends of the House, with a conviction Gosset formulates thus: a Grand Vin is appreciated in the moment, a House\u2019s style reveals itself over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interest of the subject is established: a dated vintage, a run of fewer than 500, a format and a history of keeping. The quality of the wine will be judged at tasting, after nearly three decades of maturation, and no recommendation can precede it. The vintage is read on the label; the wine\u2019s hold can only be read in the glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gosset Celebris<\/em> 1998, \u201cLa R\u00e9serve de la Famille\u201d, first edition. Magnum (150\u00a0cl), fewer than 500 bottles, numbered case. Recommended retail price: \u20ac850 incl. VAT. At wine merchants, in direct sale at the Domaine, 12 rue Godart Roger, 51200 \u00c9pernay, and on iconic-nectars.fr<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the first edition of \u201cLa R\u00e9serve de la Famille\u201d, Maison Gosset is putting on sale fewer than five hundred magnums of Celebris 1998, kept in the cellar since 2006. Recommended retail price: \u20ac850.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2109107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wines-and-spirits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}