We’re very keen on Pol Roger in Brook Street… 🍾
Although Arden can’t get any more Pol Roger Brut Réserve Non Vintage bottles until next year – all gone to the USA and Japan rather than Brexit Britain, my spy in Champagne tells me 👀 – we retain some beautiful vintage bottlings of Pol, including the great 2008 (as seen below in the company of 1986 Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill and our friend Linda Hugo of Beyond Curated).
By consensus, 2008 is the finest Champagne vintage of the 21st Century to date.
The Brut Vintage 2008 from Pol Roger is made with its traditional house blend of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay grapes from superior vineyards in the Montagne de Reims and the Côte des Blancs.
It was aged for eight years in Pol’s deep dark cellars, 30+-metres below Rue Winston Churchill in Epernay, before disgorgement and release.
Just imagine the men in monkey costumes hominids in 2001: A Space Odyssey encountering a bottle of 1964, 1947, or 1943 Pol Roger – the planet Jupiter might have exploded… 🪐
Talking of explosions (on 5th November) 🔥 🎇 🎆: We remind you please to order your Christmas wines in good time.
Couriers and warehouses are short-staffed and fulfilling orders much slower than usual. It’ll be tricky this year.
Please don’t shoot the messenger… 🔫.
