Veuve ClicquotLa Grande Dame
About this product
- TypePinot Noir Chardonnay
- Size750mL
- RegionChampagne
- Current Vintage2006* - Vintage is not guaranteed and may vary store to store or when delivered.
- Standard Drinks7.4
- Alcohol Volume12.5%
- CountryFrance
- Brand NameVeuve Clicquot
- ClosureCork
- Wine SweetnessDry
1 x Gold for the 2006 at the Mundus Vini Awards 2015, 1 x Gold - Decanter World Wine Awards, 2 Stars - Le Guide Hachette des Vins 2016
Vintage 2006
95 points www.winecompanion.com.au
How does Veuve Clicquot’s cellarmaster Dominique Demarville do it? This high wire Prestige Cuvée act walks the tightrope with such confidence and ease. Unusually for the house, the blend is just 53% Pinot Noir and 47% Chardonnay but like every great champagne its ‘ying and yang’ are in perfect symmetry. So we have the volume, structure and depth balanced by the cut and thrust of the acidity. On the palate are layers of cream, honey, nuts, brioche, pear, marzipan and ginger. The texture is shimmeringly silky and full. The finish alone deserves an ovation and demands an encore. Bravo.
James Halliday
Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker
Vintage 2004
97 points www.winecompanion.com.au
This is an awesome wine of great complexity, composed of 61% pinot noir and 39% chardonnay virtually entirely Grand Crus. Disgorged late 2011, it has grown another leg over the past 18 months, its array of mouthfilling peach, apple and grapefruit flavours given texture by contrasting notes of cream, brioche and mineral advancing through the long travel in the mouth.