The 2000 Pol Roger “Cuvée Winston Churchill” is going to be an outstanding vintage for
this fine bottling. The cépages this year is roughly eighty-five percent pinot noir and fifteen
percent chardonnay (my host did not...
The 2000 Pol Roger “Cuvée Winston Churchill” is going to be an outstanding vintage for
this fine bottling. The cépages this year is roughly eighty-five percent pinot noir and fifteen
percent chardonnay (my host did not have the exact breakdown with him), the dosage was eight
grams per liter and the wine is just now entering the market after eleven years on its lees. The
wine offers up a fine, youthful nose of apple, tart orange, a very complex base of minerality,
brioche, smoke and a fine dollop of citrus zest in the upper register. On the palate the wine is
deep, full-bodied and nascently complex, with a rock solid core of fruit, excellent focus and grip,
elegant mousse, brisk acids and outstanding length and grip on the racy and intensely flavored
finish. A fine, fine example of Winston Churchill, I would give the 2000 vintage a good four or
five years in the cellar to start to blossom before opening it with conviction. It should age very
well indeed. 2018-2060. 95+