Our Provenance Guarantee
Purchase with confidence. All of our wines are selectively sourced and thoroughly inspected for authenticity and signs of poor storage. Accepted bottles are preserved in our climate-controlled cellar until they reach your doorstep. We have no storefront and no walk-in traffic, so nothing is moved or handled between inspection and shipping.
The bottle you see photographed is the bottle you receive (or fundamentally identical when multiple bottles are listed), and our commitment to you is that it arrives as represented. If it doesn’t, we want to hear from you.
Ratings & Tasting Notes:
92 points — Gault&Millau (2026 guide)
Honey, white flowers and chalk with hints of bitter orange, ginger and a little smoke. Chalky in texture, with hazelnut and almond lengthening the finish, lively bubbles, controlled freshness and juicy white fruit, closing toasty, citrusy and spiced; a very fine, vibrant balance.
Cult Wines International Notes:
Champagne Philippe Gonet is based in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, the Côte des Blancs Grand Cru village that is also home to Salon and to Krug’s Clos du Mesnil. The Gonet family has tended vines in Champagne for seven generations, since at least 1830, and settled in Le Mesnil in 1910. Philippe Gonet founded the house under his own name in 1972, and today his children Pierre and Chantal lead the estate, farming about 20 hectares across dozens of parcels, two-thirds of them Chardonnay.
Le Mesnil’s chalk runs deep, in places as much as 40 meters, and gives its Chardonnay the piercing minerality, tension and longevity that have made Salon, from the very same village, one of the most coveted Champagnes in the world. The 2018 Millésime Blanc de Blancs is 100% Chardonnay from the house’s Grand Cru parcels in Le Mesnil and Oger, aged longer on the lees than the non-vintage cuvées. From a warm, generous vintage, it shows honey, white flowers, chalk, bitter orange and ginger, with hazelnut and almond on a chalky, vibrant palate. Gault&Millau awarded 92 points.
Bottle Size:
750 mL
Storage History:
Always stored on its side in a climate-controlled cellar.
Condition:
Outstanding condition.
Disgorged November 2024.
Please note: The condition of the bottle you will receive is accurately reflected by the one shown in the images.
