As readers well know, we love Pol Roger champagne at The Spectator. We like to think of it as pretty much the house pour. It’s used at all our events and also simply to calm our nerves at the end — or, occasionally, the start or middle — of a testing working day. We can’t seem to get enough of it. No, I mean we really can’t. We’re always running out.
Happily, we had just enough to go round at the latest in our series of Spectator Wine-maker’s Lunches, hosted by the always ebullient James Simpson MW, MD of Pol Roger Portfolio. Readers canny enough to book a ticket were treated to fine fizz, excellent Forman & Field grub and Mr Simpson in effervescent flow. There’s nothing J.S. doesn’t know about Pol, nor indeed about champagne in general, and since the wines showed so well it seemed only fair to offer them at as generous a price as possible to the wider Spectator readership via our good friends over at Private Cellar.
We start, of course, with the Pol Roger Brut Réserve NV (1), popularly known to its many fans as ‘White Foil’ thanks, um, to the distinctive white foil about its neck.
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