Word: clicquot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest champagne pioneer. Almost singlehanded, he founded France's flourishing champagne industry. Under his guidance, the making of champagne became at once a science and an art. Vintaging operations each fall virtually came to require the discipline and organization of an army. A decent bottle of Veuve Clicquot or Piper-Heidsieck takes years of care...
...Middelburg to find that Daser had paraded all his available troops-more than 2,500 of them -into the square and ordered them to squat down for the night. Then individualist Daser wrapped himself in a yellow patchwork quilt, retired to his bedroom with quantities of aspirin and Veuve Clicquot champagne, refused to go through with the formal details of surrender before dawn...
...sale in Manhattan "at a substantial reduction from their true worth" went the cobwebbed contents of the wine cellars of Inisfada, Long Island estate of the late Papal Duchess Genevieve Garvan Brady Macaulay. Items: 1901 Belmont Bourbon, 100 proof (case: $125); 1911 Veuve Clicquot champagne (case: $84); Jiminez Varela, Oloroso 1840 sherry (case: $58); Berry Bros. Prince's Port, 50 years in wood, 34 years in bottle (case: $48); Pre-Expulsion Green Chartreuse, 4 litres only (bottle: $1,25).* Burke's Irish Whiskey, 90 proof, believed laid down in 1901 (case...