VEUVE CLIQUOT-PONSARDIN – A CHAMPAGNE HOUSE OF EXCELLENCE.

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Veuve Cliquot, founded by Mr. Cliquot in 1772, is one of the best known, and most venerable champagne producers, now owned and operated by Moet et Chandon, a conglomerate of champagne producers and other goods.

Born Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, she wed Monsieur Cliquot in 1798, and has gone down int eh legends of Champagne as “La Grande Dame de la Champagne”.

During her marriage, Mr. Cliquot taught her not only to enjoy champagne, but also how to make it. Mr. Cliquot passed away in 1805. Instead of selling the company, the widow (Veuve in French) felt that she knew enough to make and sell champagne, therefore decided to run the company on her own.

During her long and glorious tenure, she concentrated on marketing her champagnes in Moscow and St. Petersburg, where champagne, especially hers, enjoyed great popularity. She attracted literary luminaries like Anton Chehow, and Pushkin to enjoy her wines, and in

return, both have promoted them to their circles of friends, the nobility and army officers.

Madame Cliquot was not only a marketing genius but also an excellent “technician”, who invented the so-called “pupitre” (a sandwich board-like contraption with specially designed holes to hold bottles inserted upside down for riddling).

In 1972, a special blend was created “La Grande Dame” to celebrate the bicentennial of the firm, and honour the lady who brought the company to prominence; it also ensured its survival in the highly competitive champagne markets world over.

La Grande Dame is the flagship of Veuve Cliquot-Ponsardin and is marketed in a specially designed, mouth blown heavy bottle, weighing 1.2 kilograms.

This extraordinary champagne with floral aromas is subtle, pure, and exudes refinement from the beginning to the end. The first impression of freshness is followed by a refined texture underlined with thousands of tiny bubbles, extremely long, pleasant, lingering and invigorating after taste,

It can be enjoyed on its own, or as an aperitif, or with fillets of Dover sole Meunier style, or oysters on the half shell.

Veuve Cliquot-Ponsardin’s La Grande Dame represents the epitome of all the brands the company produces.

All other champagnes of the house are excellent, and deserve the attention of all who like well made champagnes of distinction, but La Grande Dame is the best of all.

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