The Widow Clicquot (34 page)
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Authors: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Tags: #Biographies & Memoirs, #Historical, #Professionals & Academics, #Business, #Culinary, #Specific Groups, #Women, #Cookbooks; Food & Wine, #Beverages & Wine, #Wine & Spirits, #Champagne, #Drinks & Beverages, #Spirits
vin de casse
, 57
vin de goût, 53
Vin de la Comète
trademark, 95, 106, 149
vineyard ranking system, 20–21
vin gris
, 52
vin mousseux
, 25, 50, 123
Violetta (dessert wine), 26
Vizetelly, Henry, 127, 168
Werlé, Alfred, 185
Werlé, Édouard, 141–43, 147, 148, 150–51, 188
Louis de Chevigné and, 164
as Reims mayor, 172–73, 183
as Widow Clicquot’s partner, 155–60, 171–72, 177, 179, 182, 185
When Champagne Became French
(Guy), 31
Widows, 43, 72, 86, 172
Widow Clicquot.
See
Clicquot, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin (Widow Clicquot)
winemaking
blending and, 56, 58, 59
bottling and, 24, 48–50, 57, 96, 149
Chaptal treatise on, 49, 50–51
labeling and, 40, 45, 148–49
laws governing, 45
managerial revolution and, 143, 157
patron saint of, 50
process used in, 29, 53, 54–56
spoilage and storage concerns in, 47–48, 75–76, 125–27
vintage years and, 57, 170–71
vinyard ranking system and, 20–21
women and, xvi, 41–43, 68, 121–24, 176, 185
See also
champagne; champagne industry winepresses, 149, 170
wine tasting, 40–41
wine tourism, 40, 175
Wolkonsky, Serge Alexandrovich, 103
women
bourgeois family businesswoman model and, 120, 143, 157
champagne/wine industry and, xvi, xix, xx–xxi, 21, 41–43, 68, 121–24, 173–77, 176, 185, 190
fashion and, 12, 13, 14
limitations on, xix, 38, 39, 72
Napoleonic Code and, 72
revolution of 1848 and, 169
rise of modern businesswoman and, 189–90
as supertasters, 58
as widow entrepreneurs, xix, 43, 72, 86, 187
Woolf, Virginia, 38
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 47
Wordsworth, William, 47
World Exhibition (Paris, 1889), 31
yeast, 29–30, 32, 54–56, 59, 76, 96, 124, 125
TILAR J. MAZZEO
is a cultural historian, biographer, and passionate student of wine and food culture. She divides her time between the California wine country and Maine, where she is an assistant professor at Colby College.
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Jacket photograph Courtesy of Veuve Clicquot
THE WIDOW CLICQUOT
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