Pol Roger is The Speccie’s favourite fizz and no event here is complete without it. In fact, judging by the heroic amounts we get through — notably at the summer party — I’d say we could almost be Pol’s best customer. This is The Spectator after all, not the New Statesman.
Of course, Pol Roger’s most famous customer was Sir Winston Churchill who, the company estimates, got through more than 500 cases in the last ten years of his life. Of his titanic consumption of Pol Roger, Churchill’s daughter, Lady Soames, memorably remarked, ‘I saw him many times the better for it, but never the worse.’
It’s the 50th anniversary of the great man’s death this year, as well as the 70th anniversary of VE Day, and what better way to commemorate such events than with some Pol or some other gems from Pol’s portfolio?
The Pol Roger Brut Réserve NV (£37.20),
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