Pol Roger: Champagne Sir Winston Churchill Brut 2002

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2: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir

5: hvid, tør; Modnet; Fermentering på flaske; Perling; 12,5% Vol.; Modenhed til at drikke: 2013–2048; Pakket ind i: 1 LÆGE

9: fuld & rund; mineral; frisk syrlighed

3: Wine Enthusiast: 98/100; Suckling: 97/100; Parker: 97/100; Galloni: 96/100; Decanter: 95/100; Wine Spectator: 95/100; Jancis Robinson: 18,5/20

6: Frankrig, Champagne, Vallée de la Marne

7: Allergener: Sulfitter,

Tapperi / Importør: Champagne Pol Roger, 1 Rue Winston Churchill, 51200 Epernay, FRANKREICH

Wine Enthusiast om: Champagne Sir Winston Churchill Brut

With its gold color and mature, toasty flavors, this is possibly the greatest Winston Churchill ever. It has weight and richness, with a dense, full and rich texture. It's in perfect balance, bringing together maturity and crisper apple and green plum fruit flavors that are cut with lemon. A mineral edge gives a nervy character that will allow this magnificent wine to age further. 98/100

Suckling om: Champagne Sir Winston Churchill Brut

Fabulous aromas of dried apple, cream, mango and ginger follow through to a full, dense palate, but it's very, very fine. The bead is so, so fine. The texture is like silk. Truly superb quality. I love the contrast between richness and freshness. It builds slow on the palate and finishes so long and rich. This was 10 years on the lees. Mostly pinot noir. So superlative to drink. This follows 2000, 1999, 1996 and 1995. 97/100

Parker om: Champagne Sir Winston Churchill Brut

The 2002 Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill is the stunning 2008's closest challenger in the decade, bursting with aromas of confit citrus, stone fruits, mandarin, sweet dried fruits, smoke and iodine. Full-bodied, layered and vinous, it's deep and multidimensional, with broad shoulders, terrific concentration and a long, resonant finish. In style, this shares all of 2012's breadth and flesh but brings more structure and tension to the equation. Still youthful today, the 2002 will drink well for the next two decades from a cold cellar. 97/100

Galloni om: Champagne Sir Winston Churchill Brut

The 2002 Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill Vinothèque is such a classic wine for the vintage. Explosive and opulent to the core, the 2022 is seriously impressive. Baked apple tart, chamomile, acacia honey, hazelnut, coffee and orange confit stain the palate. Plush, generous contours wrap it all together in style. This is what 2002 is all about. Disgorged: January 2015.

Decanter om: Champagne Sir Winston Churchill Brut

The lauded 2002 vintage often shows its weightier side at this level of maturity and this magnum obliges with decadent butter caramel, charry sourdough toast and dried raspberry aromas. There’s still a relatively youthful, fragrant precision here, though, with heaps of perfumed Pinot berry fruit still pushing through the sucrosity of the vintage and the post-disgorgement ageing. Rich, energetic and fine, this is open for business and far from showing signs of tiring. Tasted from magnum.

Wine Spectator om: Champagne Sir Winston Churchill Brut

There's a sense of quiet elegance and grace to this harmonious Champagne. Refined and lacy in texture, with finely wrought acidity lending focus and length to the spice- and graphite-laced flavors of ripe apricot and blackberry, lemon meringue pie, chopped almond and briny mineral. 95/100

Jancis Robinson om: Champagne Sir Winston Churchill Brut

After tasting six younger vintages in magnum, this 75-cl bottle leaps forward in maturity – both in colour and in fruit character. There's a slight bruising to the apple fruit but only in the most charming and succulent way – that sweet smell of decay, like leaf litter and undergrowth. Still going absolutely strong, but certainly entering the mature phase of development with more tertiary than primary flavours. 18,5/20

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Pol Roger er en institution i Champagne. Et af de få store huse, der stadig ejes af familien, og et berømt medlem af Primum Familiae Vini, en sammenslutning af verdens bedste vinproducenter som Egon Müller. Grundlagt i 1849, oprindeligt traditionel vinifikation med prestige-cuvéen Winston Churchill...

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Champagne Sir Winston Churchill Brut 2002