Extra Cuvee Reserve Pure Brut Nature
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh raw oysters, sea bass sashimi, aged Parmigiano-Reggiano
✨ Technical Specifications
Pol Roger's 'Pure' Brut Nature is a masterclass in minimalist winemaking, first introduced in 2008 to showcase the raw, unadorned beauty of Champagne. Crafted without any dosage (sugar addition), this cuvée relies entirely on the natural balance and maturity of the grapes. The house selects fruit from diverse terroirs, including highly-regarded Grand Cru parcels, to achieve the perfect harmony of structure, acidity, and fruitiness required for a zero-dosage style. The wine is aged for at least four years in Pol Roger's legendary, cool chalk cellars deep beneath Épernay, where the steady temperature allows a slow, refined autolysis. The result is a dry, incredibly precise Champagne that reveals the pure essence of the clay-limestone soils.
🍾 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%, Chardonnay 33%, Pinot Meunier 33%
🍷 ABV
12.5%