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Churchill’s Favorite Champagne, Signed Bottle

Unopened Champagne bottle signed by Christian Pol Roger.

As reported by the International Churchill Society “Britain’s wartime prime minister was such a fan that Champagne maker Pol Roger named its prestige cuvée after him, Cuvée Winston Churchill”

This bottle (in original presentation box) has been autographed by Christian Pol Roger, the fourth-generation owner of Pol Roger France. It is inscribed to Marlene Mulvena, a well-known fashion designer in Queensland, Australia. Here’s the inscription:

“To Marlene
On Your Wedding Day
Christian Pol Roger”

Here’s a history of Churchill’s affinity with Champagne maker Pol Roger as reported by the magazine The Buyer:
“Pol Roger’s success owes much to its carefully curated connection with Britain’s war time Prime Minister. He was already an enthusiastic fan of the product by the time he met Odette Pol Roger – a member of the Wallace dynasty and volunteer for the French Resistance – at a party at the British Embassy in Paris. Served Pol Roger 1928, Churchill began a love affair with that particular vintage, and a lasting, entirely platonic, friendship with its custodian.

Each year on his birthday, she would send him a case of his favourite. He lived a long life and appears to have polished off the entire inventory of the 1928 vintage before moving on to his second favourite, the 1934. On his death in 1965, Odette attended the funeral, at St Paul’s Cathedral. On her return to Epernay, she declared that Pol Roger’s distinctive white label should be edged in black by way of a tribute, something that continued for decades.”

This item has been stored in a climate-controlled environment out of the daylight. The box shows signs of shelf wear.

Item #560