Grape Variety | Pinot Noir & blends |
---|---|
Type | Champagne |
Country | France |
Body | Medium |
Region | Champagne |
Brands | POL ROGER |
Alcohol Volume | 12.5% |
Pol Roger had been the favourite champagne of Sir Winston Churchill since 1908.[4] After Churchill's death in 1965, Pol Roger placed a black border around the labels of Brut NV shipped to the United Kingdom.[5] Madame Odette Pol-Roger, whom Churchill had befriended at a party at the British Embassy in Paris in 1944, attended his funeral nearly 21 years later.[6] In 1987, when the trees of Churchill's country retreat, Chartwell, were devastated by the Great Storm, the Pol-Roger family paid for much of the replanting.