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Champagne Veuve Clicquot

Montagne de ReimsReimsNMNMNégociant ManipulantA house that makes and sells champagne from grapes it buys in, wholly or partly. Most of the famous names sit here, and the category says nothing about quality or whether the house also owns vineyards.Founded 1772

Veuve Clicquot, founded in Reims in 1772, owes almost everything to Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin, widowed at twenty-seven in 1805 and left running a business at a time when French women could not legally do so without permission.

The house has kept its own pace through every vintage, and the cellar still works the way it always has: one press, one tank, one decision at a time.

Everything here is allowed to settle slowly. The wines rest longer than the market asks for, and the family tastes the whole range before anything leaves the cellar.

What follows is written from visits, from bottles opened too early and a few opened at exactly the right moment.

The house has kept its own pace through every vintage, and the cellar still works the way it always has: one press, one tank, one decision at a time.

Read the full story of Champagne Veuve Clicquot

The widow who invented the riddling table, the first vintage champagne and the first blended rosé — and then built the house that still runs on Pinot Noir.

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