The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It

Author: Mazzeo, Tilar JBrand: HarperBusinessEdition: IllustratedBinding: HardcoverFormat: IllustratedNumber Of Pages: 288Release Date: 28-10-2008Part Number: IllustratedDetails: Product Description The Widow Clicquot is the New York Times bestselling business biography of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, became a legend in her tumultuous times, and showed the world how to live with style. Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life the woman behind the label, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, in this utterly intoxicating book that is as much a fascinating journey through the process of making this temperamental wine as a biography of a uniquely tempered and fascinating woman. Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, October 2008: With its trademark fizz and sparkling taste, champagne has long been the beverage of choice for those in a celebratory mood. From the artillery of popping corks on New Year's Eve to the clinking of newlywed glasses, a bit of the bubbly has locke