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150 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

Pol Roger, a Champenois from Ay, founded his champagne house in Epernay in 1849. Over the next fifty years, until his death in 1899, he built his business into one of the most respected in Champagne and, in particular, forged strong trade links with Britain. The founder was succeeded by his sow, Maurice and Georges, who changed their names to Pol Roger by deed poll and, thereafter, by (to date) a further three generations of his direct descendants. In 1998, the management team was joined by Patrice Noyelle who, with the background experience of his own family wine company in Burgundy, heads the company as "Président du Directoire", while a supervisory board of family members (the Conseil de Surveillance) is headed by Christian de Billy, a great grandson of the founder.

Photos: -Le directoire-Dégustation pour 1'élaboration de la cuvée

Pol Roger, with stocks of 6,5 million bottles representing some five years supply, is among the smaller of the great Champagne houses, but ranks with the very highest in terms of prestige and an uncompromising reputation for quality. Its remains proudly independent, one of a very select band of Grandes Marques still remaining in family hands. The company owns some 85 hectares of vineyards on prime sites in the Vallée d'Epernay and on the Côte des Blancs, drawing the remainder of its supplies from individual growers, many of whom have supplied Pol Roger for generations. Its cellars, extending to some 7 Km, lie on three levels in the chalk below Epernay and are among the coolest and deepest in the region: contributing no doubt to the excellent, persistent mousse of small bubbles which distinguished all Pol Roger Champagnes.

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