Extra Brut Extra Old
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared scallops, roasted veal, aged Comt cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Veuve Clicquot's Extra Brut Extra Old is an innovative, ultra-premium multi-vintage cuv e that pays homage to the house's legendary library of reserve wines. Created by blending exceptionally rare reserve vintages—historically spanning years like 1988 to 2010—this champagne represents the absolute essence of the signature Yellow Label, isolated and magnified. The reserve wines are aged on their lees in vats for a minimum of three years before blending, and once bottled, the cuv e undergoes an additional three years of cellar aging. With a minimal dosage of around 3 grams per liter, this Extra Brut expression showcases incredible purity, mineral tension, and a complex, creamy texture. It is a testament to Madame Clicquot's pioneering spirit, offering a deep, historical journey through the house's finest cool-cellar reserves.
🍾 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 (approx. 45-50%), Chardonnay (approx. 30%), Meunier (approx. 20%)
🍷 ABV
12%