Harper Perennial</br></br>Product Description</br></br><em>The Widow Clicquot</em> is the <em>New York Times </em>bestselling business biography of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire?? became a legend in "r tumultuous times?? and showed the world how to live with style. Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life the woman behind the label?? Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin?? in this utterly intoxicating book that is as much a fascinating journey through the process of making this temperamental wine as a biography of a uniquely tempered and fascinating woman.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><strong>Amazon Best of the Month?? October 2008</strong><strong>:</strong> With its trademark fizz and sparkling taste?? champagne has long been the beverage of choice for those in a celebratory mood. From the artillery of popping corks on New Year's Eve to the clinking of newlywed glasses?? a bit of the bubbly has locked arms with good cheer for centuries. Yet had it not been for the pioneering Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin?? the libation deemed "e of civilization" by Winston Churchill might today be available only to the