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Champagne Philipponnat

Vallée de la MarneMareuil-sur-AÿNMNMNégociant ManipulantA house that makes and sells champagne from grapes it buys in, wholly or partly. Most of the famous names sit here, and the category says nothing about quality or whether the house also owns vineyards.Founded 1910

Philipponnat owns the Clos des Goisses, the largest walled vineyard in Champagne and one of the most extraordinary sites in the region: 5.5 hectares of chalk above the Marne at Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, facing due south on slopes of up to 45%.

The house has kept its own pace through every vintage, and the cellar still works the way it always has: one press, one tank, one decision at a time.

Everything here is allowed to settle slowly. The wines rest longer than the market asks for, and the family tastes the whole range before anything leaves the cellar.

What follows is written from visits, from bottles opened too early and a few opened at exactly the right moment.

The house has kept its own pace through every vintage, and the cellar still works the way it always has: one press, one tank, one decision at a time.

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The steepest, largest walled vineyard in Champagne, bought in 1935 — and a family that can trace its vines in Aÿ back to 1522.

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