Demi Sec NV
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fruit-based desserts, blue cheese, mildly spiced Asian cuisine
✨ Technical Specifications
Veuve Clicquot's Demi-Sec NV is a beautiful nod to the 19th-century preference for sweeter Champagnes, famously adored by the Russian Tsars and European high society. While modern tastes lean towards Brut, this cuvée keeps the historical flame alive with a generous dosage that perfectly balances sweetness with vibrant acidity. Crafted primarily from Pinot Noir for structure, supplemented by Meunier for roundness and Chardonnay for elegance, it incorporates a significant proportion of aged reserve wines to ensure depth and consistency. After aging on its lees in the house's historic chalk crayères in Reims, it emerges as a rich, pastry-scented Champagne with notes of brioche, candied citrus, and honeyed stone fruit.
🍾 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 40-45%, Meunier 30-35%, Chardonnay 20-25%
🍷 ABV
12%