Veuve Clicquot Vintage Rosé 2015 Champagne, Gift Box, 75cl

Although Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, daughter of the most influential textile industrialist in Reims, was educated to be the perfect bourgeois wife and mother in 19th-century France, no woman before had managed a company with such significant capital. It is no wonder she is known as the grande dame of champagne. Widowed by a local entrepreneur whose aim was to produce his own wines and sparkling wines and sell them across Europe as luxury products, Clicquot revolutionised the world of champagne. Not only did she save the business by risking her entire inheritance, but she also defied Russian military surveillance that banned the importation of French champagne, to make the leap and conquer the glasses of St. Petersburg. But that was not all. Two innovations definitively established the widow Clicquot as the grande dame of champagne. On one hand, she invented the riddling process, which ensures all sediments settle in the neck of the bottle so that the champagne appears crystal cle