Pol Roger Champagne is pretty much the house pour at the Spectator. Not every day, you understand, only when the occasion demands it. You know the sort of thing: mid-morning on Monday to beat the blues; lunch time on press day to celebrate that week’s issue; afternoon on Friday to welcome the weekend.
Well, maybe we’re not quite as bibulous as that. But there are certainly more bottles of Pol Roger in the office fridge than there are of milk and it’s a fact that no party of note or celebration at the Spectator passes by without several familiar white foil bottles being broached and hugely enjoyed. The Spectator summer party in particular is a veritable Pol-fest.
Needless to say, our budget stretches only as far as non vintage Pol and more’s the pity for the latest vintage incarnations – the 2008 Brut Vintage and the 2009 Blanc de Blancs – have been released this very week and they’re both absolute corkers, as fine as any vintage Pol Roger as I – and pretty much anyone else – can remember.
My old chum David Roberts, Master of Wine at Goedhuis & Co, knows his stuff and he reckons Pol Roger has hit the jackpot this time.
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