Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Brut comes here with a reusable insulated cooler box in the house's yellow that doubles as an ice bucket. Add ice around the bottle and it stays cold for a picnic, a beach day or a junk trip.
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
The house suggests 8 to 10°C. Pack the box with ice about 20 minutes before you want to pour and use tulip glasses if you have them. Good with fish and chips, prawn toast, salmon blinis or a wedge of Parmesan. Drink within three years or so.
How to Enjoy
Outdoor plans where there is no fridge, and a practical gift for someone who entertains.
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: Reusable insulated cooler box
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.