Pol Roger's Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill 2000

There were a couple of top champagnes to be tried at that frustrating importers tasting the other weekend. The Salon (I forgot which vintage) was only available at certain times and I was not at the booth at those times, whilst the Pol Roger Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill was pouring right the way through (as far as I can tell. I had tasted the 1996 before (at the Lafite 1982 dinner) and subsequently blogged about here. This time it is the 2000 vintage on show. A golden yellow wine with few streams of fine bubbles, the nose was crisp fruity with notes of bamboo shoot. An initial acid prickle gives way to a delicate mousse accompanied by bamboo shoot and fruity notes on the palate, all held together with an acid backbone still oozing bamboo shoot vegetal notes.