Veuve Clicquot 2018 La Grande Dame Limited Edition by Simon Porte Jacquemus Brut Champagne

This special edition of Veuve Clicquot’s prestige cuvée “La Grande Dame” from the 2018 vintage — designed in collaboration with fashion-designer Simon Porte Jacquemus — offers both elegance and style. With a 90% Pinot Noir focus and a sunny, expressive profile, it combines serious Champagne cellar-worth quality with designer packaging that makes it a trophy-bottle for gifting and celebration.

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Origins & Craftsmanship

La Grande Dame is the flagship vintage cuvée of Veuve Clicquot, crafted from the house’s finest Grands Crus sites and traditionally emphasizing Pinot Noir. The 2018 edition blends 90% Pinot Noir with 10% Chardonnay, following the vision of Madame Clicquot that “our black grapes yield the finest white wines”. The Brut dosage is 6 g/L.
This particular version is wrapped in a white linen cloth and presented in a luxe box designed by Jacquemus, incorporating his signature handwritten typography and sun-ray motif. The bottle design reflects craftsmanship and French contemporary design sensibility as much as the wine inside.

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Critics Reviews

Professional tastings of the 2018 vintage emphasized the wine’s richness and finesse: one critic described the colour as “rich, luminous gold” and noted how the mousse “revels in its own energy… aromatic vigor marries citrus and orchard fruit with tropical creamy notes, then toasty near-savory texture” highlighting the Pinot longevity and oak influence.
Another reviewer highlighted the wine’s balance, calling it “deep and precise… subtle finesse and freshness expressed through salinity,” with “intense aromas of lemon, lime, yuzu, white fruit, delicate florals” and a seamless palate structure.
These comments position this edition as both powerful and poised — a Champagne that delivers both stylistic panache and genuine cellar potential.

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Tasting Profile

Nose: Bright golden-hued, with lemon, lime and yuzu citrus, orchard fruit (pear, white cherry), gentle honeysuckle and florals, plus hints of brioche and toasted almond.
Palate: Elegant yet structured — crisp citrus peel, white-fleshed fruit, subtle tropical touches, soft brioche/yeast character and finishing with a fine saline minerality, toasted nuts and a whisper of smoky shell-fossil chalk.
Finish: Long and refined with tension intact—minerality, light almond bitterness, delicate oak spice and continuing citrus lift.

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