Pol Roger Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill

This is Pol Roger Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill 1996, which we tasted in the Chateau Lafite 1982 wine dinner. Pol Roger was the favourite champagne of Sir Wintson Churchill and he was associated with it all his life. The Pol Roger champagne house created this premium cuvee in his honour in 1975 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of the great statesman. In their Tastings column for the Wall Street Journal, Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher wrote of a blind tasting of premium cuvee champagnes. Different vintages of the Sir Winston Churchill Cuvee came top in two different blind tastings a few years apart, confirming the quality of this wine. How did we find it that night? Pale gold with vigorous streams of fine bubbles, it has a dry slightly crisp fruity nose with hints of tuna. Dry and slightly fruity on the palate with a delicate mousse, its acid backbone gave nice support right though to the finish. The participants at the dinner were not particularly familiar with the wine, but they were all impressed.