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Champagne Pol Roger Pure Extra-Brut NV

Champagne from France - Champagne

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Delicious and refined bone-dry Champagne with zero dosage. Refreshing and wonderful with food.

£52.00 Bottle

£312.00 £260.00 Case of 6

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Code: CH1741

Wine characteristics

Champagne
1 - Bone dry
Pinot Noir Meunier Chardonnay
75cl
Within two years of purchase
12.5% Alcohol
no oak influence
Champagne cork

Pol Roger

Pol Roger founded his eponymous house in 1849 and earned his living largely by making Champagne for other houses. Although the business started without an inch of vineyard to its name, it gradually acquired land of its own and now has 55 hectares in and around Epernay, including important sites on the Côte des Blancs and Montagne de Reims as well as numerous other vineyard plantings.

Pol Roger was known to be the favourite Champagne of Winston Churchill who was quoted as proclaiming, “In victory, deserve it. In defeat, need it!”. The prestige wine, Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill, was released as a tribute and although the blend is a closely guarded secret, it is believed to be pinot noir-dominated, reflecting the style that Churchill preferred.

Still run by descendants of the founder, Pol Roger is classic grande marque Champagne with a tremendous reputation rooted in the style and finesse of all its cuvées. It also has the kudos of being one of the few houses to hold the Royal Warrant. A blanc de blancs and a rosé, both vintage-dated are also produced, the former in tiny quantities.

Times of Tunbridge Wells

The pop of a champagne cork is an eternal appetite-sharpener. You’ve splashed out on native oysters so why not treat yourself to the best dry champagne? Unlike so-called Brut champagnes, which can...

The pop of a champagne cork is an eternal appetite-sharpener. You’ve splashed out on native oysters so why not treat yourself to the best dry champagne? Unlike so-called Brut champagnes, which can have up to 12-15 g/l of sugar, bone-dry Brut Nature ones – like this supreme oyster-friendly example from Winston Churchill’s favourite house – have up to just 3 g/l. Here that dryness and salty undercurrent, not to mention the bubbly aspect, provides the ideal textural contrast to the smooth and silky texture of the oysters. Made from a third each of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, this is a spellbinding match for native raw/cooked oysters and also a great partner for dim sum, crab, kedgeree, tandoori chicken, sushi and sashimi. Zero dosage. Santé!

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James Viner

Saturday 4th Sep 2021

The Times

Pol Roger was Winston Churchill’s favourite champagne, and this celebrated house’s most exacting style is this no-dosage bubbly, made from equal portions of all three champagne grapes -...

Pol Roger was Winston Churchill’s favourite champagne, and this celebrated house’s most exacting style is this no-dosage bubbly, made from equal portions of all three champagne grapes - chardonnay, pinots noir and meunier - from three different regions. Without that comforting dosage dollop of sugar and reserve wine, Extra Brut has nowhere to hide and its very fine pinhead bubbles and creamy mousse lead on to a magnificent, crisp, taut palate with lots of elegant, chalky, minerally fruit to the fore and a fine, smoky, toasted almond finish.

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- Jane MacQuitty

Saturday 3rd Aug 2013

The Scotsman

Pol Roger is still myfavourite champagne house for pure, citric, sparkling joy – Pol Roger is one ?of the few independent houses left and one ofthe few which has perfected the ‘Pure’ nil ...

Pol Roger is still myfavourite champagne house for pure, citric, sparkling joy – Pol Roger is one ?of the few independent houses left and one ofthe few which has perfected the ‘Pure’ nil dosage ?style. The key is apparently to select grapesfrom warmer vineyards and mature a little longer. A little drier than PolRoger’s normal Brut, but effortlessly elegant.

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- Rose Murray Brown

Saturday 28th Dec 2013

The Times

Still family-owned,Pol Roger is one of the champagne greats, renowned for its fine, flowery,traditional champagnes and adored by connoisseurs. Churchill once described PolRoger’s Epernay...

Still family-owned,Pol Roger is one of the champagne greats, renowned for its fine, flowery,traditional champagnes and adored by connoisseurs. Churchill once described PolRoger’s Epernay headquarters as “the world’s most drinkable address”.Typically, even this house’s Pure Brut Nature, without a comforting dollop ofsweetening dosage, is sublime, all smouldering, smoky, creamy fruit, with alovely, lingering, beef-tea finish. Gorgeous now, greater next year.

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- Jane MacQuitty

Saturday 29th Aug 2015

Sunday Telegraph

Expensive but exquisite upmarket dry champagne, refreshing without any sourness, leaving a clean but soft impression of yellow plums and pears.

- Susy Atkins

Sunday 8th May 2016

joannasimon.com

Not sure where I’vebeen but I hadn’t tasted Pol’s Pure Extra Brut before this year and it turnsout to be one of the best zero dosage/non dosé (completely unsweetened)Champagnes...

Not sure where I’vebeen but I hadn’t tasted Pol’s Pure Extra Brut before this year and it turnsout to be one of the best zero dosage/non dosé (completely unsweetened)Champagnes I’ve tried. Too often they have all the charm of sucking on a lemon,but this has delicately honeyed peach and shortbread notes entwined withmineral freshness and elegance.

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- Joanna Simon

Friday 13th Dec 2019