Cave Privee
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted pheasant, aged Comté cheese, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Veuve Clicquot's Cave Privée is an exclusive collection of rare, late-disgorged vintage Champagnes curated from the house's deepest chalk cellars (crayères) in Reims. Originally kept as a private reserve by successive cellar masters, these wines undergo extraordinary aging on their lees—often for two to three decades—before being disgorged with a minimal dosage. This extended maturation allows the signature Pinot Noir-dominant blend to develop magnificent tertiary complexity, offering notes of dried fruits, brioche, honey, and truffle, while retaining a surprising, vibrant freshness. It stands as a testament to Madame Clicquot's legacy of patience and uncompromising quality.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1772 by Philippe Clicquot, Maison Veuve Clicquot attained legendary status under the stewardship of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, who was widowed in 1805. Madame Clicquot pioneered landmark innovations, creating the first recorded vintage Champagne in 1810, developing the riddling table (pupitre) in 1816, and formulating the modern blended rosé Champagne method in 1818. Today owned by LVMH, the house oversees roughly 390 hectares of estate vineyards—dominated by Grand and Premier Cru parcels across the Montagne de Reims, Côte des Blancs, and Vallée de la Marne—all certified under Haute Valeur Environnementale (HVE 3) and Viticulture Durable en Champagne (VDC). Under Cellar Master Didier Mariotti, the winemaking philosophy remains anchored in Pinot Noir, imparting structure, breadth, and vinous intensity. Masterful reserve-wine blending and extended maturation inside Reims' UNESCO-listed Gallo-Roman chalk crayères define benchmark cuvées such as Yellow Label Brut, Extra Brut Extra Old, and the prestigious vintage cuvée, La Grande Dame.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier
🍷 ABV
12%