Our Wines

Réserve Perpétuelle

A Timeless Signature

Aged in casks to instil a sublime depth and patina, our reserve wines are a treasure that the House re‑blends and renews each year, incorporating them into the new harvest to make it more complex while preserving its minerality. Surpassing the search for a balance between freshness and intensity, Réserve Perpétuelle reveals, through this dual approach, the purest expression of the quality of Philipponnat’s blends.

Rosé

Pinot Noir in Full Blush

The Rosé cuvée strikes a refreshing balance between colour and fruit. This rosé blend is made from the same grapes as the Réserve Perpétuelle cuvées. In addition, there is a small proportion of the most mature possible red Champagne wine from our very best vineyards.

This wine is concentrated by saignée and gains in intensity without becoming overloaded with tannins or plant characteristics, but instead developing rich notes of red and black fruits. The Pinot Noir grapes, like the minority fraction of Chardonnay, are mostly Premiers and Grands Crus, always from the first press. The reserve wines remain aged in wooden barrels in Réserve Perpétuelle and also include a fraction of Réserve Essentielle, which is aged for longer.

Vintages

Faithful to the Terroir and the Vintage

For a long time, Champagne winemakers limited their vintage cuvées to years that were considered as exceptional in terms of quality and volume. Philipponnat takes a different approach that is better suited to the positive evolution of the climate for Champagne. The House creates its vintage cuvées more frequently, but blends them from a more rigorous selection of Premiers and Grands Crus, always as pure cuvées (first press).

What they have in common is the intensity, freshness and elegant vinosity of their long ageing on lees, in bottles in the cellar, for at least six years. They feature an extra-brut dosage of 4 grammes per litre to deliver an unpretentious yet full expression of their terroirs and vintages of origin.

1522

Five Centuries of History

Apvril Le Philipponnat, the Swiss captain who settled in Ay in the 16th century, was the owner of Le Léon, where the company still cultivates its vines today. Official records mention this as early as 1522. This year was therefore chosen as the symbolic date of the Philipponnat family’s establishment in the Champagne region and the origin of the sixteen succeeding generations. The 1522 cuvées bear witness to this long tradition.

The blend of Grands Crus that make up these wines is composed of Pinot Noir from the historic parcels in Le Léon, enhanced by a Grand Cru from the northern Montagne de Reims, and another from the Côte des Blancs, generally Mailly and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, vinified for the most part in wooden barrels without malolactic fermentation. 1522 is thus the result of Champagne’s three great chalk terroirs, with minerality, complexity and balance. Each bottle of 1522, dosed extra-brut (4 g/l), is aged in the cellar for six to eight years, until it reaches its peak.

Clos des Goisses

Probably the Finest Terroir in Champagne

At 5.83 hectares, Clos des Goisses is one of the oldest walled vineyards in the region. Located in the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it occupies the steepest slope in Mareuil-sur-Ay and is south-facing. Clos des Goisses is the first terroir of the House and of all Champagne to have been harvested and vinified using a parcel-specific approach. Owned by the House for almost a century, it is the cornerstone of its relentless pursuit of excellence and perfection.

Specific Plots

Three Exceptional Climats