Sir Winston Churchill
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roast pheasant with truffle jus, Pan-seared turbot with beurre blanc, Aged Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill is the prestigious flagship of the house, created in honor of Sir Winston Churchill, who was a passionate admirer of Pol Roger's rich, robust, and mature champagnes. First released with the 1975 vintage, the exact blend is a closely guarded family secret, though it is dominated by Pinot Noir for structure, breadth, and power, balanced with Chardonnay for elegance and acidity. Sourced exclusively from Grand Cru vineyards that were active during Churchill's lifetime, the cuvée undergoes extended lees aging in Pol Roger's deep, cool chalk cellars in Épernay, yielding exceptional complexity, fine autolytic character, and remarkable longevity.
🍾 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, Chardonnay
🍷 ABV
12.5%