Our selection of Champagne Veuve Clicquot "Only one quality, the very first" Madame Clicquot. In 1772, Philippe Clicquot founded a wine trade company : “Clicquot”. His son Francis, who headed the company, died in 1805. Madame Nicole Barbe Ponsardin, his young widow, took over the trade company. In 1810, the House took its name of Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, prestigious house internationally known and admired today. Madame Clicquot was a visionary woman. (...)