Extra Cuvee Reserve Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, roasted chicken, triple-cream cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Historically known as the 'Extra Cuvée de Réserve', this signature non-vintage Champagne represents the definitive house style of Pol Roger. It is crafted from an equal blend of Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, and Chardonnay sourced from approximately 30 different crus across the Champagne region. The wine undergoes its secondary fermentation and extensive aging in Pol Roger's legendary chalk cellars in Épernay, which lie 30 meters below ground and are kept at a remarkably cool 9°C. This exceptionally cold environment slows down the fermentation process, encouraging the development of incredibly fine bubbles and a complex, creamy mousse. True to the house's artisanal heritage, every bottle is still hand-riddled by professional riddlers before disgorgement. The result is a beautifully balanced Champagne that marries the structure of Pinot Noir with the fleshy fruitiness of Pinot Meunier and the floral elegance of Chardonnay, a style famously championed by Sir Winston Churchill.
🍾 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
Pinot Noir 33%, Pinot Meunier 33%, Chardonnay 33%
🍷 ABV
12.5%