Blanc de Blancs Vintage
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2034
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, pan-seared scallops, roasted turbot with butter sauce
✨ Technical Specifications
Pol Roger's Vintage Blanc de Blancs is a masterclass in the expression of Chardonnay from the prestigious Côte des Blancs. Crafted exclusively from Grand Cru vineyards including Oger, Cramant, Avize, Chouilly, and Mesnil-sur-Oger, this cuvée is produced only in exceptional vintage years. The house's history of meticulous craftsmanship shines through in their deep, cold clay-limestone cellars in Épernay, where the wine undergoes a slow secondary fermentation and extended aging on its lees for at least six to seven years. This patient process, combined with traditional hand-riddling, imparts a remarkable creamy texture, vibrant minerality, and complex notes of white flowers, fresh brioche, and citrus. Historically, Pol Roger has been synonymous with elegance, favored by British royalty and Winston Churchill alike, and this Blanc de Blancs represents the pinnacle of their single-varietal mastery.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1849 by Pol Roger in Aÿ before establishing its historic cellars along Épernay's Avenue de Champagne in 1851, Champagne Pol Roger remains one of the preeminent family-owned Grandes Marques. The house oversees approximately 92 hectares of sustainably farmed estate vineyards across the Côte des Blancs, Montagne de Reims, and Vallée de la Marne, rooted in quintessential Campanian chalk and limestone soils. Pol Roger is renowned for vinifying exclusively in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats with systematic double débourbage à froid and full malolactic conversion, preserving pristine varietal fruit and crisp structure. Aging takes place in deep, chalk-carved cellars reaching depths of 33 meters, where prolonged cool secondary fermentation produces exceptionally fine perlage, complemented by traditional hand-riddling. Celebrated for its historic British connection and royal warrants, the maison's portfolio is anchored by the balanced Brut Réserve NV and reaches its apotheosis in the robust, Pinot Noir-dominated prestige Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill, alongside its library Vinothèque releases.
🍇 Grapes
100% Chardonnay
🍷 ABV
12.5%