Champagne Pol Roger
Vintage 2016

The Champagne Brut Vintage 2016 by Pol Roger is an assemblage of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay from vineyards classified as Grand and Premier Cru in Montagne de Reims and Côte des Blancs. It rests over 7 years on its yeasts. Elegant, complex and creamy Champagne Brut Vintage. This Champagne has a strong charachter, underlining its elegance and delicacy and reflecting Pol Roger's soul.

The Champagne Brut Vintage 2016 by Pol Roger is pale yellow in colour with silver highlights, the wine produces a seductive effervescence rising from a string of fine, persistent bubbles. To the nose it is particularly open and expressive, beginning with notes of dried fruit, cocoa, almond and coconut. Allowed to breathe, notes of yellow fruits such as Mirabelle plum and eau de vie add complexity to the nose which, although young, is rich and promising. Crisp acidity gives it a strong backbone that lingers through to the finish. The dried fruit aromas of the first nose persist, with nuances of citrus, lemon and bitter orange that complement the palate and reinforce the wine's youthfulness. Subtle notes of candied fruit, particularly candied orange peel, emerge on the finish.

Champagne Pol Roger

This is the third in line of the Grandes Marques, led by the founder's heirs. Pol Roger, descendant of a notary family, started his own business in Epernay in 1849. At the age of 19, he produced Champagne for third parties and his Maison was only born in 1900, when his sons Maurice and Georges honoured their father modifying their surname into Pol Roger (they even needed a presidential decree) and they started to produce Champagne under that name. The Maison Pol Roger is one of the few which maintained the family's property since the origins - more than two centuries ago - and this also influences the product quality: they produce elegant Champagnes, structured and unique - the result of a great dense and structured substance, never exceeding. Its Champagne was loved by historical protagonists, such as Winston Churchill - affectionate client but also private friend of the French Maison. He even named his race-horse Pol-Roger and asked for a special size (pintes imperiales, 0.57 lt) of White Foil (Cuvée Champagne, later also Cuvée Churchill) because this was the right size for his wife's happiness. When Churchill died (1965) the Maison took part to his funerals and mourned the departed with a special label on "his" White Foil. In 1984, in Churchill's home in Blenheim Palace, the Maison launched the Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill - Year of Vintage 1975 (ten years after the English stateman's death).