How many of us have strolled through our local wine and spirits shop around New Year’s Eve, noticed the words Veuve Clicquot ...

The Pittsburgh CLO presents the world premiere of "Madame Clicquot: A Revolutionary Musical," about the woman who was a ...

One of the world's most famous Champagnes - Veuve [Widow]) Clicquot - explicitly evokes the rather grim tradition. But other legendary houses - Bollinger, Laurent-Perrier and Pommery - also got their ...

Some of our favorite moments in film and T.V. include the times when wine takes center stage. This summer, the story of Veuve Clicquot came to the silver screen in Widow Clicquot, a fan-fiction fizz ...

The title, Widow Clicquot, is an English translation of the ... of Europe during the Napoleonic Wars by allying with a rakish wine merchant (Sam Riley) to elude the trade embargo.

Nonetheless, the film is an enjoyable romp through the picturesque vineyards around Reims during the turbulent days of the Napoleonic wars, as Barbe marries François Clicquot and finds ... hierarchal ...

Thomas Napper’s Widow Clicquot is a fictionalised portrait of ... Byronic soul with more than a slight attachment to his wine merchant (played with rakishly purring ambivalence by Sam Riley).

“Widow Clicquot” isn’t really about wine. It’s the story of a woman entrepreneur succeeding in a man’s world, combating restrictive laws and rampant misogyny. Her business happens to be ...

François Clicquot, when she was 21. He died six years later, from mysterious causes, maybe typhoid, maybe suicide. Despite patriarchal disapproval, his young widow took over the wine business and made ...