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Pol Roger

POL Roger might have an international reputation as a “British” champagne, not least because of its “By Appointment” to the British royal family, served at numerous royal weddings, and that it was much loved by Sir Winston Churchill, but it could also as much be considered an “Australian” champagne.

True, we never had an ambassador for Pol Roger to match Churchill, who is said to have drunk some 42,000 bottles in his life. Hardly surprising that Pol Roger’s finest vintage cuvee is named after the politician and that its cellar door street

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