These women who have marked the history of wine

First of all, let's discover Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin, widow at only 27 years old, she took over the Champagne house created by her husband. She was the first woman to run a Champagne house.

At the time of its creation in 1772, the house sold 100,000 bottles per year. A true businesswoman, Barbe-Nicole expanded the Champagne house internationally. Despite a period of war tearing Europe apart, she decided to send 10,000 bottles of Champagne to Russia, to Saint Petersburg.

From there, the house enjoyed enormous success, and could no longer meet all its demands.

A businesswoman, but also a visionary, Barbe-Nicole subsequently invested 263 hectares of vines among the best crus (Bouzy, Verzy, Verzenay, etc.) and built up an exceptional wine heritage.

This success led to an increase in the marketing of the house, since in 1866, when Barbe-Nicole died, the house was selling 750,000 bottles each year.

With a keen sense of marketing and business, she became the owner of Champagne Pommery-Greno at the age of 30.

Champagne was very popular and known as a sweet, semi-dry wine at the time, to accompany desserts. It was then that Louise Pommery decided to evolve the taste of Champagne to accompany meals. She successfully launched dry and extra-dry wines.

From only 45,000 bottles sold in 1836, the Pommery-Greno house experienced an excellent evolution reaching 2,250,000 bottles sold at the end of the 19th century.

Louise Pommery then decided to set up production at the top of the Saint-Nicaise hill in Reims, a city emblematic of Champagne houses.

The house was very popular with a British clientele, which explains its Tudor-style industrial complex since 1878.

In 1788, Françoise Joséphine took over the Château d'Yquem by joining forces with its cellar master, its letters of nobility and its international reputation.

After many journeys during her life, twice imprisoned, she decided to build a cellar in Yquem, a real innovation for that time.

Thereafter, Françoise Joséphine joined forces with other owners of great Sauternes wines. She committed herself to the practice of late harvesting and successive selections.

Today, Château Yquem is the only Sauternes classified as a premier cru supérieur and the most famous sweet white wine in the world.

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