Pol Roger, Brut Vintage, 2019
Pol Roger, Brut Vintage, 2019
- 75cl
- 12.5%
- White Sparkling
- Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
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Optimal drinking window: 2026 - 2040
Est. delivery in Autumn, 2026
Pol Roger is known for producing elegant, complex, and age-worthy sparkling wines, and has long been associated with sophistication and tradition, famously being a favourite of Winston Churchill.
The Brut Vintage 2019, a blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, is sourced from the best Grand Cru and Premier Cru vineyards in the Montagne de Reims and Côte des Blancs. This blend gives the wine both structure (from Pinot Noir) and elegance (from Chardonnay).
What the critics say:
"Pale gold with a green shimmer and a persistent bead; aromatics unfurling in an orderly fashion, with orchard fruit, then citric peel and finally something a little more indulgent, toasted almond, maybe, or hazelnut. Refined above all. The palate changes the register appreciably and immediately seduces with red fruit and flowers, rosehip ceding to roses and bilberry to peony, the darker colours and sturdy backbone prompted by the atypically high percentage of Pinot Noir in the blend. Thereafter, the wine is magisterial in its weave of firm acidity, extract and ripe fruit. 2019 is now, it seems, pulling ahead of both of its immediate neighbours in a famous trilogy, such is the inherent power on show; sloes, plum dark chocolate and a whisper of umami. Power that is harnessed by an imperious structure and tapered by a purposefully meandering finish. Most impressive."
"This vintage cuvée marks the inaugural release of Damien Cambres as chef de cave. Fortuitously, his first vintage was 2019, a year he regards as the first truly great August harvest of recent times. The colour shows a luminous depth with lemony hues. The nose is gloriously toasty and exuberantly expressive, bursting with candied lemon, wild strawberry, and starfruit, all lifted by an elegant smoky nuance. An aromatic firework, the wine is both intense and tightly knit on the palate, driven by striking acidity. Bright, pristine, and finely poised, it reveals considerable ageing potential."
Pol Roger draws on vineyards spread across the Marne Valley, the Côte des Blancs, and the Montagne de Reims. The region's defining geological feature is its deep chalk subsoil — some of the purest in the world — which provides excellent drainage, retains moisture in dry years, and lends the wines their characteristic mineral tension and fine, persistent bubbles. The cool continental climate, moderated by the forests to the north, preserves natural acidity even in warm vintages like 2019, which is precisely what keeps vintage Champagne built for ageing rather than just drinking.
Champagne is the most tightly regulated and imitated sparkling wine appellation on earth. Only wines made from grapes grown within the defined zone — primarily Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Meunier — and produced using the traditional method of secondary fermentation in bottle may carry the name. Vintage Champagne, as opposed to non-vintage, must be made entirely from a single harvest and aged for a minimum of three years on the lees, though the best houses age theirs considerably longer. Compared to the non-vintage blends that make up most Champagne production, a vintage release is a statement: this year was worth commemorating.
The 2019 vintage in Champagne delivered exactly what producers hoped for after a string of challenging years. Spring arrived early with perfect flowering conditions, followed by a summer that stayed warm without tipping into the scorching extremes that can strip away finesse. The harvest began in late August under clear skies, with both Chardonnay and Pinot Noir reaching ideal ripeness levels whilst retaining the crisp acidity that gives Champagne its backbone.
What emerged from the cellars shows remarkable balance between power and freshness. The Chardonnay displays crystalline precision with real depth beneath, whilst the Pinots offer ripe red fruit character without losing their mineral edge. Most houses declared it a vintage year, and rightly so. These wines are drinking superbly now, showing immediate appeal alongside the structure to develop gracefully until 2035 and beyond for the finest cuvées.
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