1995 Pol Roger Champagne Extra Dry Late Disgorged

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  9/7/2009 - richard.stevens wrote: 93 Points

  Beautiful.
  
  Golden in the glass, with a gentle mousse. Rich, honey and yeast aroma and similar flavours in the mouth, with gentle bubbles. Very long finish.
  
  This was nothing like a young, lively, sparkler and more like a graceful mature Burgundy. Went very well with scallops and then chicken.
  
  All in all it was a pleasure to taste this - my final bottle went with style!

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  1/20/2009 - richard.stevens wrote: 91 Points

  Beautiful as ever. Rich, full of flavour

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  11/26/2008 - richard.stevens wrote: 91 Points

  Rich golden, autolytic. Fantastic depth of flavour with yeast, biscuit there. Although the bubbles dissipated fairly quickly it was still sparkling after a couple of hours and just got better and better over the evening with ever richer aroma and flavor coming through

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  10/13/2008 - richard.stevens wrote: 91 Points

  More bubbles in the glass than the last reviewer! Rich, golden, very good. Will do proper notes when we open the next bottle...

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  3/20/2008 - scyrene wrote: 93 Points

  Appreciable pressure under the cork, but no visible bubbles in the glass. Quite a dumb nose. On sniffing, a faint core of rich gold fruit, but little else. The taste is a different matter. The mousse is soft but mouthfilling, rather than insistent. Good acidity remains; a quite delicious flavour of apple pie, both the filling of cooked Bramleys, and the buttery pastry, predominates. Overall, the palate is at the perfect point between youth and maturity - orchard fruits on the one hand, nutty and biscuity aromas on the other. It is quite delicious, but this wine is rather like a symphony played pianissimo. Perhaps it's just a little too long since disgorgement (bearing in mind late-disgorged champagnes have a much reduced lifespan compared to their normally-treated counterparts), or maybe this bottle is just at an introverted stage. Either way, it's still a privilege to be able to try something so rare, and I am tempted to buy two or three more bottles to discover the answer. [Berry Bros, £50, disgorged 10 October 2005]

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