The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It (P.S.)

by Tilar J. Mazzeo

I already knew the champagne. I don’t mean that. My girlfriends and I drank it with a degree of enthusiastic regularity that might not be wise to detail.

The poet Lord Byron famously proclaimed that lobster salad and champagne were the only things a woman should ever be seen eating.

Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman more beautiful after drinking it.