Veuve Clicquot and iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama are sending the world a message of hope and optimism with a unique, vibrant and colourful creation celebrating the House’s new vintage, La Grande Dame 2012. Image Credit: Yayoi Kusama with La Grande Dame 2012 (Image courtesy of Yayoi Kusama)
Named “La Grande Dame de Champagne'' in her time, La Grande Dame is a tribute to Madame Clicquot, and to the creative and elegant souls who have followed in her footsteps. Playful, lively, and laughing, Veuve Clicquot’s new vintage, La Grande Dame 2012, perfectly expresses the House’s love for Pinot Noir. La Grande Dame by Yayoi Kusama is a message of hope and optimism, especially striking as 2021 draws to a close. The iconic Japanese artist has adorned the La Grande Dame 2012 case and bottle with her iconic symbols: flowers and polka dots.
Here, Yayoi Kusama and Veuve Clicquot’s creative universes mix and mingle together in a sparkling, daring and optimistic collaboration. Madame Clicquot believed that Pinot Noir had the broadest range of expression and potential to create the best champagne. It was her love for Pinot Noir that led her to acquire ten of the House’s twelve emblematic Pinot Noir parcels.
Since then, Pinot Noir has been the hallmark of Veuve Clicquot’s style, providing the structure and strength that is so typically its signature. Hailing from the critically acclaimed 2012 harvest in Champagne, the prestige cuvée is almost entirely made with Pinot Noir, with just 10 percent Chardonnay added to the blend to bring additional freshness.
Pinot Noir demands the very finest expertise from the Cellar Master and the winemaking team. Fragile and delicate, Pinot Noir also poses a challenge to those working in the vineyard. The Pinot Noir grape expresses itself differently depending on its terroir, exposure, and the specific year’s harvest conditions.
It is perhaps the grape with the biggest capacity to surprise. La Grande Dame’s DNA centers on the excellence of Pinot Noir, which determines whether a year will be declared a vintage or not, and the extraordinary quality of its grapes mainly from Grands Crus and the House’s historic plots.
The grapes used for La Grande Dame come from some of the most prestigious in Champagne: Aÿ, in the Grande Vallée de la Marne, as well as Verzenay, Verzy, Ambonnay and Bouzy in the Montagne de Reims. La Grande Dame 2012, with its versatile composition driven by Veuve Clicquot’s extraordinary savoir-faire, is not only a delight today, but also a promise of celebration for years to come.
La Grande Dame matches perfectly with vegetables, offering endless possibilities thanks to a wide aromatic palette. Vegetables, herbs and fruits, all picked in the morning and cooked in the afternoon, are then extremely fresh with unequalled expressive power, intensity and complexity of maximum aromas. “Grands Crus” vegetables for Grands Crus grapes.
Savour the elegant simplicity of these “Grands Crus” vegetables with an accompaniment of quail, skate wing or sea urchin. Currently exclusively available at Le Rouge, discover the beautiful display at Marina Bay Link Mall flagship store to celebrate the launch of La Grande Dame 2012 collaborative design.
La Grande Dame 2012 (750ml) retails at SGD278, and is available on Le Rouge e-store.
