Monday, May 16th, 2005

NV Pol Roger Champagne

Appearance: medium gold, delicate mousse.

Nose: this is an aged bottle and showed lovely developed Pinot fruits with some strong autolytic characters (yeasty and biscuity in aroma).

Palate: fine high acidity, lovely fruit with some savoury flavours, great mousse and really good length.

Conclusion: We’ve been hugely fortunate in tasting all of Pol Roger’s wines for a number of years on the back of our involvement in the Pol Roger Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Tasting Match (see other posts for portfolio tastings). Always impressive and the ageing of this non-vintage releases all these toasty and biscuity aromas. Fantastic.

Rating: 18.5/20