Extra Dry
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai cuisine, fruit tarts, foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
Pol Roger's Extra Dry Champagne is a beautiful nod to the historical preferences of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Champagnes with a slightly higher dosage were favored by high society. Crafted with the same meticulous care as the house's famed Brut Réserve, this cuvée is a harmonious blend of equal parts Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, and Chardonnay sourced from 30 different crus. After undergoing secondary fermentation in the exceptionally cool, deep chalk cellars of Épernay—descending thirty meters below ground—the wine is aged for at least three years. The defining characteristic of the Extra Dry style is its dosage, carefully calibrated to yield a rounder, softer profile that balances vibrant acidity with a subtle, off-dry sweetness, offering notes of stone fruits, white flowers, and warm brioche.
🍾 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 34%
🍷 ABV
12.5%