2008 Pol Roger Champagne Vintage Brut

Community Tasting Notes (167) Avg Score: 92.0 points

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  5/11/2024 - Puteljen! wrote: 89 Points

  Lemon, chalk, acids. Not much else. The 2008 Pol Roger is either too young or not very good. Too hard for my taste presently at least.

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  5/2/2024 - ankitmehra Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Beginning our evening with this bottle, I had previously only gotten to taste examples of Pol Roger's Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill selections when it came to the maison's vintage offerings. Suffice to say, I was eager to check in on this bottle with some palpable excitement around the 2008 vintage. Immediately, the nose offered superb balance as peach, baking spices and brioche all came together, forming a lovely bouquet. The palate had some zippy acidity, boasting an upfront consisting of ripe melon and green apple notes before the mid-palate was dominated by a brioche note accompanied by some light flintiness. Signs of maturity emerged in the back end as a lemon rind note quickly transitioned into prominent nuttiness on the finish. As a whole, this was a treat and at the price, it's hard to find a bottle from 2008 you could want more from at this stage of its maturation.

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  3/22/2024 - mikelikewine Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This is lovely, fresh and full of energy. Not as many nutty and toasty notes as I would like, but it’s clearly just at the start of a long drinking window. First of a case of 6 for me. The remainder are still in storage, and I think I might leave them there for a good while.

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  2/7/2024 - Terroir59 wrote: 92 Points

  Upon opening, a very fresh, lively, and round but balanced bubbly. Over the course of the dinner, mature notes of roasted nuts and caramel moved toward the front on both the nose and the palate.

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  2/3/2024 - jens.thogersen Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Fantastisk, bland det bästa jag druckit. Lite nötig, utvecklad, frisk, lång smak. Kraftig mouss.klarar lätt många

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