1976 Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Carte Or Brut, Champagne, France

£295.00

This bottle is though a bit burnished and showing a bit of 60 year old wear and tear is in good shape with excellent levels and appearance. 1976 was an excellent vintage for Champagne, so hope springs eternal!

Description

Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin is a Champagne house founded in 1772. Its headquarters is in Reims. It belongs to the LVMH luxury group. Its production is 8 million bottles. It presents itself as a model brand, highly committed to sustainable viticulture. In constant pursuit of excellence and innovation, Madame Clicquot invented the riddling table in 1816 to obtain clearer wines of unprecedented quality. Her contemporaries soon nicknamed her “the Grande Dame of Champagne”, a tribute to her boldness and determination. Plot by plot, Madame Clicquot built an exceptional wine heritage: 515 hectares in the heart of Champagne’s finest crus. Today, both in France and abroad, Maison Veuve Clicquot continues to embody the values dear to Madame Clicquot, modernity and boldness combined with a demand for quality and impeccable expertise.