Everyone knows the title, the look, the bubbly bliss of Veuve Clicquot Champagne. It’s the form of luxurious that’s laborious to overlook: a deep inexperienced bottle belted in solaire yellow, regal and poised and filled with effervescent pleasure. When you pop it, a glass filled with sparkle.
However everyone knows Veuve Clicquot for an additional purpose (and never simply because life’s treasured moments usually demand an beautiful glass of bubbly). The rationale we all know that unmistakable dandelions-at-sunset yellow label — or the style of tingling bubbles that may really feel just like the manifestation of pleasure bodily floating in your tongue — is sort of solely due to one lady: Madame Clicquot.
Who Is Madame Clicquot?
The “Veuve Clicquot,” a.okay.a. the “widow Clicquot,” was the sudden life drive behind a drink artfully crafted, painstakingly adored, and meant to be poured into all of life’s glowing (or doubtlessly glowing) moments.
Her title is Barbe Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, born in Reims, France, in 1777. She was married into the Champagne world at simply 21, widowed at 27. After her husband’s dying, she grew to become an unlikely entrepreneur, although one who was finally a trailblazer and innovator.
Her progressive spirit deemed her “La Grande Dame” of Champagne as she defied typical {industry} practices and have become one of many first ladies enterprise entrepreneurs of the time. Madame Clicquot, a visionary lady, pushed by unfailing optimism, chosen and bought distinctive vineyards, that are immediately classed as Grand and Premier Crus.
The last word expression of her legacy is Veuve Clicquot’s newest classic: La Grande Dame 2018. If you understand and love Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label, you can be positive to savor each sip of this deep and harmonious Champagne, a luminous expression of “L’Artwork du Pinot Noir”.
Madame Clicquot’s Legacy
Madame Clicquot wasn’t born into the {industry}, however she married into Champagne. Not solely did Madame Clicquot take the reins of her late husband’s enterprise, however she revolutionized the manufacturing of Champagne itself.
First of many “firsts,” Madame Clicquot invented the “riddling desk,” some of the important components within the manufacturing of Champagne. Now a foundational follow within the Champagne {industry}, the act of riddling (gently rotating the bottles to dislodge the lifeless yeast cells), helps to make clear the Champagne and put together it for disgorgement (eradicating the lifeless yeast cells from the bottle after secondary fermentation). What was as soon as an industry-disrupting innovation has change into a normal follow letting the true flavors of Champagne shine via in each sip.
Her trailblazing improvements didn’t cease there. Right now, folks worldwide expertise Madame Clicquot’s legacy in each sip, whether or not that’s from a bottle of blended rosé or beautiful classic.
Madame Clicquot developed the primary classic Champagne in 1810, making each La Grande Dame classic a shining tribute to Madame Clicquot. Eight years later, in 1818, one other threat by Madame Clicquot would change the Champagne world endlessly: She blended a few of her Bouzy pink wines along with her Champagne, creating the primary “rosé d’assemblage.”
The 2018 Classic
In 2018, a wet winter light right into a spring and summer time of sizzling and sunny days, giving technique to impeccably ripened Pinot Noir grapes, which make up 90 p.c of Veuve Clicquot’s latest classic, La Grande Dame 2018. The twenty fifth classic of the Home bottles up these sunny days, pouring joie de vivre in each glass.
Craftsmanship was the helm with La Grande Dame 2018, using those self same methods Madame Clicquot pioneered centuries in the past. The magic within the bottle is basically due to the purest expression of “L’Artwork du Pinot Noir.” This Champagne is bottled at a sublime 12.5 p.c ABV and blends 90 p.c Pinot Noir with 10 p.c Chardonnay.
Within the glass, there’s a shiny, nearly glowing, dusty rose colour. Every bubble invokes a stunning complexity of taste, dynamic citrus (lemon, lime, yuzu) softened with fleshy white peach and Asian pear. These shiny flavors are laced with delicate floral notes and topped off with a refined salinity making every sip all of the extra refreshing.
Events Huge and Small With La Grande Dame 2018
Any desk adorned with bottles of Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame Classic 2018 will invite, entice, and encourage celebration. Whether or not it’s a picnic for 2 or a desk for 20, La Grande Dame welcomes gastronomic delight, nice conversations, and unfailing optimism with whomever you’re sipping.
Pairing prospects, and causes to have fun, are countless and enlivened by Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame Classic 2018. You’ll discover it to be beautiful firm at any refined eating expertise. Emboldened by something from high quality recent cheeses or wealthy pink lobster with butter, La Grande Dame’s glints of citrus, tender almond, and delicate buttery notes are like silk in opposition to a fragile richness.
La Grande Dame 2018 is delightfully tingling, delicately supple and lively. It’s not simply Champagne — it’s the legacy of a lady who modified Champagne for all of us.
Every sip of La Grande Dame 2018 is a legacy of a narrative steeped in heritage, innovation, and excellence.
This text is sponsored by Veuve Clicquot.
