Pol Roger, Sir Winston Churchill

Pol Roger, Sir Winston ChurchillPale yellow gold. Deep, pungent nose offers an array of orchard and citrus fruit qualities, along with notes of iodine, minerals and toasty lees. Chewy and impressively concentrated, with excellent clarity to its pear and orange flavors. The toasty quality gains strength with air and carries through an impressively long, spicy, floral finish. Very impressive, especially for a release from what is widely considered a so so vintage for Champagne. Josh

sometimes many years

citrus fruits

This was a notoriously warm vintage that saw sugar and phenolic ripeness shoot up very quickly at the end of the growing season

plum and cassis notes that really stick with you

My recent visit to Giacomo Conterno was fascinating

Sisseck is thorough and meticulous

Since then

medium to full-bodied 1997 possesses sweet tannin

and as it so often happens

generous fruit and an absolutely eternal finish

Fresh and pliant

Pierre Rovani has raved about this wine in the past