Veuve Clicquot was created by a marriage between two families. Two successful textile business owners, Baron Nicholas Ponsaradin, a textile maker, and Phillipe Clicquot, a textile merchant, who also had a side hustle in vineyards and wine production, arranged for their children (Francois Clicquot and Barbe-Nicole Ponsaradin) to marry back in 1798. Phillipe had established his wine business and vineyards in 1772 but was never his true focus but after the marriage, Francois was made a partner of the business and with focus and energy the wine business began to flourish.

In 1801 Francois gained full control of the business when Phillipe chose to retire, the orders continued to grow as Francois expanded and created an International business. Then tragedy hit in 1805 when at just the age of 30 Francois died suddenly after a short illness. Grief stricken Phillipe wanted to fold the business but his widow, Barbe-Nicole, had other ideas and formalised a plan to take over the business. After much convincing and following a successful wine making apprenticeship she was ready to take control of the business and in 1810 Veuve Clicquot-Ponsaradin was born.

Barbe-Nicole Ponsaradin wasn’t just successful, she was a trial blazer. Madame Clicquot as she became known was responsible for leading an International business, securing the finest vineyards to allow further production, establishing foreign markets and building the brands reputation by supplying Royalty and dignitaries all across Europe and beyond. Not only had she built the Champagnes reputation, but she built her own often being referred to as La Grande Dame – The Great Lady. In 1972 the champagne house created the Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame prestige cuvee to celebrate the history and the influence that she had on their business.

A fine select of Veuve Clicquot is available from Prestige Drinks, we are the Veuve Clicquot gift experts and this forms part of our Personalised Champagne offering. We offer 3 types of personalisation from engraved Veuve Clicquot on which most can also have the occasion images added. Engraved Veuve can have up-to 4 lines of text and we can personalise Veuve Clicquot Jeroboams and Magnums. A few other styles aside from the regular Veuve Clicquot yellow labels is the personalised Veuve Rose, the personalised Veuve Vintage champagne and the Personalised Veuve Demi-Sec.

Veuve Clicquot can also be photo engraved, a offering exclusive to Prestige Drinks. We take your photograph and convert it into a map of thousands of tiny laser cuts of varying sizes and depths which when painted provides a detailed full grey scale replication of your image. The photo engraving is perfect for any special occasion and is available as photo engraved veuve magnums and jeroboams. Available across the Veuve Clicquot range a few other suggestions are the photo engraved Veuve Vintage, photo engraved Veuve La Grand Dame, the photo engraved Veuve yellow label and the photo engraved extra brut.

Following on the images Veuve Clicquot gifts can be created with the picture personalised option where we take your image and print it directly onto the bottle. Champagne personalised with a full colour printed image, immense detailed up to a million pixels per inch. There is a limit on size of bottles with this process but we can still offer picture personalised veuve standard bottles and picture personalised Veuve magnums. This process looks great on the picture personalised Veuve Vintage, Veuve Vintage Rose and Picture Personalised Veuve La Grande Dame.

All Personalised Veuve Clicquot gifts are available on next day delivery with the priority service and all bottles can be delivered presented in a wooden gift box. The wooden boxes can be viewed in the accessories section.

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