This is Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Brut in a padded Puffy Holder, a quilted sleeve with a handle that fits the bottle and slows warming on the move. The Champagne inside is the house's standard non-vintage Brut.
About This Champagne
Yellow Label is made from 50 to 55% Pinot Noir, 28 to 33% Chardonnay and 15 to 20% Meunier, drawn from 50 to 60 crus. Reserve wines make up 25 to 45% of each blend so the style stays steady from year to year. It is aged about three years in the cellars and finished at 9 g/L dosage, which is Brut. The house describes the target style in four words: freshness, strength, aromatic richness and silkiness.
Tasting Profile
- Nose: Pear, apple and white peach, with mandarin, grapefruit and brioche behind.
- Palate: Pinot-led and structured, pear and peach with pastry notes and a touch of dried fruit.
- Finish: Fresh and fairly long, finishing on almond and citrus.
Serving & Food
Chill the bottle to 8 to 10°C before putting it in the sleeve. Pour into flutes or tulips on the move. It pairs well with fried chicken, tempura and aged Gouda. Best within a few years of purchase.
How to Enjoy
A bottle to take to a friend's rooftop or a boat party, sleeve included.
Product Details
Category: Champagne
Producer: Veuve Clicquot, Reims
Style: Brut, non-vintage
Grapes: 50 to 55% Pinot Noir, 28 to 33% Chardonnay, 15 to 20% Meunier
Blend: 25 to 45% reserve wines, 50 to 60 crus
Dosage: 9 g/L
Country: France
Volume: 750mL
Presentation: Padded Puffy Holder carry sleeve
About the Maison
Veuve Clicquot dates from 1772 in Reims, but its character comes from Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, the widow who took over the house in the early nineteenth century. In 1818 she made what the house calls the first known blended rosé Champagne, adding red Pinot Noir wine to her white blend, a method most houses now use. Her insistence on Pinot Noir as the backbone still shapes the house style, as does a large library of reserve wines kept to smooth out differences between harvests: around 400 wines, some held for as long as 30 years.