Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2012

Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2012

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  • Robert Parker rating 95
  • Vinous rating 94
Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2012
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HED36998

75 cl

12.5%
£170.00
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La Grande Dame showcases the House’s excellence, perfectly expressing its love for Pinot Noir. A tribute to Madame Clicquot and the creative and elegant souls who have followed in her footsteps, this wine is in the image of La Grande Dame herself.

The 2012 edition is adorned with a label designed by the iconic Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama. Composed of 90% Pinot Noir and 10% Chardonnay, expect floral notes on the nose together with fruitier nuances of apple, pear, peach and almond. Complex and silky on the palate with flavours of dried apricot, hazelnuts, honey and sugar candy.

94 Vinous
The 2012 La Grande Dame is a dense, powerful Champagne. Now with a few years post-disgorgement, the 2012 is starting to show the first signs of aromatic development. Dried pear, chamomile, spice, light honey and marzipan are beautifully amplified throughout. The blend is 90% Pinot Noir and 10% Chardonnay, with the weight of Pinots from the southern part of the appellation lending considerable volume. Compared to the wines that follow it, the 2012 feels very much like it has one foot in the older style here. Disgorged: February 2021. Antonio Galloni8th April 2025

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The 'Grande Dame' of Champagne

Founded in Reims in 1772, Veuve Clicquot is one of the largest Champagne houses. The famous Madame Clicquot is credited with many innovations during her tenure as head of the house in the early 1800s - introducing vintage-dated Champagne, inventing the process of riddling to ensure a clearer wine and developing the rosé Champagne produced through blending. Madame Clicquot is also credited with helping to popularise Champagne with high society in Europe during the Napoleonic wars.

The non-vintage is fresh and crisp with ripe fruit balancing citrussy zing while the vintage offerings are richer, fuller and more complex with notes of toasted brioche, almond and crushed green apple. La Grande Dame is the house's prestige cuvée - made only in exceptional years, the Champagne is produced using wines selected from Veuve Clicquot's Grand Cru vineyard holdings.

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