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Country ranking ?
654
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Producer ranking ?
14
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Decanting time
No
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When to drink
2020-2035
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Food Pairing
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Food Pairing
Seafood, Salads, Consommes
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Pol Roger recently celebrated its 150th anniversary and is perhaps best known as Winston Churchill's favourite Champagne. Established in 1849, Champagne Pol Roger remains family-owned and proudly independent to this day. Pol Roger, the 1831 born founder of the house, had lived in the Grand Cru village of Aÿ his whole childhood. The whole family supported the enterprise of their son. From early on Pol Roger focused in exports, and the English m...
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Up to this point 1996 has been considered a fantastic vintage which produced classic wines; the best since 1990. A long, dry summer produced grapes of record ripeness with record acidity. Some, including myself, question how the 1996s are aging. The wines are generally characterized by a distinctive rather lemony acidity and very good attack, but some wines now seem terribly austere, while others already seem dangerously short of fruit. None o...
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Latest Pro-tasting notes
11 tasting notes
Tasting note
flavors
Coffee, Toasty and Honey
taste
Balanced and Dry
Written Notes
Glorious wine reflected the how well this vintage still drinks. Wonderfully rich with honey and hazelnut. A honeycomb note. Layered texture, excellent length and it maintains its intensity right through. A beautifully, richly flavoured, well balanced champagne. Loved it.
96
Pol Roger Vintage Champagne 1996 / From magnums served at a 21st birthday party for a wine merchant's daughter called, appropriately enough, Polly. Absolutely sublime. By now fully mature – cast off its youthful acidity – and a very broad, satisfying wine without being in any way heavy. Bone dry and with some putty and breadiness but also great breadth and length. This was a great vintage when it worked (even if some wines never had enough fruit density to throw off their high charge of acidity) and it really showcases great champagne with magnum age. I have not tasted this wine from bottle recently. 19p
Deep glossy yellow colour. Britght, toasty intense fruit. Sweet and tropical, ripe apple nose. Something lacking on the mid plate.pronounced and mouthfiulling but does not click. I'd expect more toastiness. Ripe with nice acidity.
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Origin
Epernay, Champagne
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Pure
Reserve de Wermacht
Rich
Sir Winston Churchill