Great Women of Wine: The Amazing Widow Clicquot
Larry Leigon's Secret Life of Wine Newsletter # 114
The Good Widow Clicquot herself, photo from www.welt.de
The Revolution
When Barbe-Picole Ponsardin was 11 years old in 1789 when the French Revolution broke out. She should have died, but she didn’t. And that was just the beginning of the things she should have done and didn’t—and she didn’t do it for the rest of her life.
Her father wa…
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