Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2012
HED36998
75 cl
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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.
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Veuve Clicquot
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.