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Sir Winston Churchill 2012

Pol Roger, Champagne, France

Pol Roger
Champagne France
  • 97
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    653

  • Producer ranking ?

    13

  • Decanting time

    20min

  • When to drink

    now to 2035

  • Food Pairing

    sushi

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New Release: Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill 2012

 Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill 2012. Pol Roger release their vintage champagnes only in top rated vintages, the last being 2009. Today Pol Roger are launching the latest vintage, Sir Winston Churchill 2012. This cuvée marking the 19th release since the inaugural vintage of 1975. Pol Roger created their Prestige Cuvée in homage to Sir Winston Churchill mindful of the qualities that he sough...

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The Story

The relationship between Champagne Pol Roger and Sir Winston Churchill dates back to a providential meeting at a luncheon given by the British Ambassador to France some months after the liberation of Paris at which was served the sumptuous 1928 vintage of Pol Roger. Attending the lunch was the beautiful Odette Pol-Roger as well as the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, with whom she struck up an instant rapport. A friendship was born which co...

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Vintage 2012

The next most exceptional vintage since 2008. A truly difficult growing season saw severe frosts in the winter. March brought warmth but early budbreak made the vines vulnerable to spring frosts. Overall, the early growing season was wet, and mildew became a serious issue. However, conditions improved dramatically in the later summer months. An August heatwave resulted in a rapid accumulation of sugar, but fortunately the nights remained cool,...

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Written Notes

“Medium-deep lemon-gold colour. Soft and overt nose of spicy, yeasty complexity meeting a lovely charred gunpowdery whiff. Crisp pristine fruitiness of ripe yellow apple, baked pear, candied lemon and vanilla, developing tropical nuances. The palate echoes the 2012 vintage’s hallmark vivacity, but is mellow, round and textured, as Winston ought to be. There is instant charm and drinkability to this well-built wine that finishes with a refreshing chalky-mineral bite. A fine Sir Winston vintage.”

Sir Winston Churchill was a close friend of the Pol Roger family, prompting the house to name their prestige cuvée after him. The great man himself, once commented: “My tastes are simple, I am easily satisfied with the best.”

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  • 93p

A seamless Champagne, showing a texture of raw silk, this weaves vibrant acidity with an expressive range of glazed apple and poached white cherry fruit flavors, with pickled ginger and saffron spice details and rich notes of pastry cream, toast and coffee liqueur. More about finesse than power, this is long and creamy on the mineral-tinged finish

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  • 96p

Light, green yellow colour. Fresh and intense nose shows fresh minerality, apples and peaches. Dry and crisp palate is concentrated and dense. Lovely layered falvours from brioche to apples and gentle toastiness. The finish is long and lingering with mineral notes. JL 95p (Oct 2021)

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  • 95p

Pol Roger's newly released 2012 Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill is showing brilliantly, bursting from the glass with youthful aromas of honeyed pears, toasted brioche, pomelo, fresh pastry, green apple and mandarin orange, with hints of stone fruit emerging with time in the glass. Full-bodied, vinous and textural, with an enveloping core of fleshy, concentrated fruit, bright acids and an elegant pinpoint mousse, it concludes with a long, penetrating finish. More muscular and vibrant than the generous and charming 2009, the 2012 ranks alongside the 2008 and 2002 as one of the three finest renditions of Sir Winston Churchill this millennium—and in style it resembles a hypothetical blend of those two vintages.

Pol Roger releases the 2012 Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill this week, so in the interests of timeliness, I'm publishing this tasting note in advance of a substantial Champagne report slated for later this month. In that report, readers can look forward to—inter alia—reviews of Pol Roger's other current releases. But in the meantime, this superb 2012 merits serious attention.

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  • 96p

Pale lemon yellow. Apples, pears, fruit driven, nuanced nose, minerals and chalk, some brioche nose. Fresh acidity, apples, lemons, detailed, bright and nuanced, refined, superb texture, long finish. 95

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Origin

Epernay, Champagne

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