The story follows Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, the “grand dame of Champagne” who helped bring the Veuve Clicquot label to the prestige it has today.

Champagne lovers should be grateful to the pioneering boldness of Veuve Clicquot's Madame Clicquot—the woman who changed ...

She sold over 10,000 bottles of champagne for the equivalent of £70 each and saved her business. Within weeks Russia’s Tsar Alexander I declared that ‘Veuve’ Clicquot, or ‘Widow ...