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

by Tilar J. Mazzeo

As one wine tourist in the 1760s tried to explain: “In the Champagne gray wine refers to those wines which in other places are called white Champagne. Gray wine is made with black grapes.” The logic was simple: Black and white makes gray. So gray wine was a white wine crafted with some black—or what