1947 Pol Roger Cuvée de Réserve (1 x bottle)
1947 Pol Roger Cuvée de Réserve (1 x bottle)
Pol Roger Cuvée de Réserve 1947 is not just the “normal”(!) 1947 Pol Roger – which was apparently Sir Winston Churchill’s “house Champagne” towards the end of his life – but a bottling that was disgorged on 29th July 1981 to commemorate the wedding of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.
(NB 1947 wasn’t served at the wedding, though Pol Roger was served in generous amounts at the wedding reception at Claridge’s – opposite Arden’s Brook Street office – according to this film.)
It was a great Champagne vintage in 1947, the middle of a biennial trio that included 1945 and 1949.
The summer was very hot and the harvest was precocious, starting in early September. Normally it would have been mid- to late-September.
As a point of comparison, the grapes for the sun-drenched 1921 vintage were harvested from 19th September. (An exceptional year for Pol Roger, too.)
I haven’t had Pol ’47 but Arden’s friend François Audouze had the Churchill version and the Princess Diana version à deux in May 2017.
He noted that the late-disgorged 1981 version was “drier because it has not been dosé at the time of the disgorgement. Its vivacity is extreme. It’s quite sunny and pleasant but I prefer by far the first, which enchants me.”
Some bottles of 1947 Pol Roger (according to the late Michael Broadbent’s Vintage Wine) were disgorged even later, in 1988.
The 40th anniversary of the 1981 Royal wedding will be – well, noted rather than celebrated – in 2021.
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Vintage: 1947
Classification: N/A
Country: France
Region: Champagne
Grape Varieties: Pinot Noir | Chardonnay
Condition
Good ullage, as per image of reverse ullage.
Some creasing of the capsule foil.
Minor abrasion and wear and tear on the box.
Provenance
From a private client.