Rare Vintage
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, creamy mushroom risotto, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Veuve Clicquot's Rare Vintage represents an extraordinary expression of the house's vintage winemaking heritage, which famously began in 1810 when Madame Clicquot created the first recorded vintage Champagne in the region. These rare releases are crafted only in exceptional years and are subjected to extended maturation on their lees in the house's historic, UNESCO-designated Gallo-Roman chalk quarries (crayères) in Reims. This prolonged cellaring allows the Pinot Noir-dominant blend to develop magnificent tertiary complexity, structure, and depth, showcasing a harmonious balance between vibrant freshness and rich, evolved characters of dried fruits, brioche, and spice.
🍾 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, Meunier
🍷 ABV
12%