Veuve Clicquot

Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin ( IPA: [ VÖV kli.kɔ pɔsaʁdɛ ] ) is the name of one of the most famous champagne brands.

The cellar of the company is located in Reims in the French province of Champagne and is part of the LVMH group.

History

1772 Philippe Clicquot founded a wine trading under the brand name Clicquot. Francois Clicquot died in 1805, the son of the company founder.

His 27- year-old widow (French: Veuve ) Barbe- Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin - ( 1777 to 1866 ) then took over the business of her late husband. While Europe has difficulties recovering from the Napoleonic wars, it succeeded, thanks to the active support of their mostly coming from Germany employees to export their champagne in the world. She presented their products at all rule courts of Europe, thereby contributing to broadcast the French savoir -vivre. After a short time her wine was not only a successful product, but a real myth. Barbe- Nicole Clicquot was a passionate entrepreneur. She corresponded with their Salesman - especially with Ludwig " Louis " Bean, her late husband's closest confidant; they inspected even at night their wine cellar to watch over the development of the cuvée. Your Winemaker Anton Muller, French Antoine de Muller (1788-1859), a native of Schwabe, invented around 1813, the vibration method.

Their influence on the German sparkling wine industry is also not to be underestimated. Georg Christian von Kessler worked from 1807 to 1825 / 26 in the home Veuve Clicquot ( since 1810 as an officer, five years later as a partner ) and established in accordance with this commitment in 1826 in Esslingen am Neckar, the first German sparkling wine. 1841, drew the widow Clicquot back from the company, its successor was Eduard Werle, since 1822 Winemaker and later part owner of the house Clicquot. Madame Clicquot died in 1866 at the age of 89 years. 1884 took over the son of Eduard Werle, Alfred Werlé, the company's management.

In 2012, a special edition of Veuve Cliquot Yellow Label was released in the form of a sardine can. When the father of Nicole Ponsardin was appointed Baron of the first Napoleonic Empire in 1813, he received as an award a coat of arms, whose contents he could decide for themselves. He opted for the representation of a bridge (French Pont), below which a sardine was mapped. The resulting pun Pon (t ) Sardinian (s) gave his name so that a satirical meaning. In this story, the bottle should remember in the sardine can.

Quote

" How sweet and airy bubbles through the bubble / The Klicko widow in the glass! "