🍾 Pol Roger Brut Rosé Vintage 2020

Pol Roger Brut Rosé Vintage 2020 is the 2020 release of Brut Rosé Vintage by the house Pol Roger, a vintage rosé Champagne.

According to the house, it is based on its Vintage 2020 (60 % Pinot Noir and 40 % Chardonnay), to which 18 % still red Pinot Noir wine is added; this Pinot Noir comes from Ambonnay, Hautvillers and Verzenay and from Vertus, one of the few Côte des Blancs villages still growing the variety.

The house Pol Roger dates from 1849, when Pol Roger began selling wine in Aÿ; since 1851 it has been based in Épernay.

The boundaries of the Champagne area were set by a law of 6 May 1919: parts of the Marne, Aube, Aisne, Haute-Marne and Seine-et-Marne departments. The designation’s specification allows seven grape varieties, dominated by Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier; grapes are picked as whole bunches, that is by hand, and the yield is limited to 10,400 kg per hectare.

According to the Comité Champagne, Champagne is served chilled to 8–10 °C, and bottles are kept in the dark at a steady 10–15 °C, without vibration. An opened bottle is best closed with a sparkling-wine stopper and kept cold.

It is sold under the protected designation of origin Champagne: the bubbles come only from a second fermentation in the bottle, and the wine is aged for at least 15 months before sale (36 for vintage). Check the label for the sugar term (brut, extra brut and so on): the house does not state it on the wine's page.

Why it matters to you. The year on the label is the harvest year, so different years of the same line are different wines. The WHO reminds: there is no safe level of alcohol.