Veuve Clicquot, Brut Yellow Label, NV, Reims France

Veuve Clicquot Champagne Yellow Label Brut NV is one of the most recognisable and famous Non-Vintage Champagnes from a historic house, the Brut Yellow Label reflecting the art of blending up to 60 different crus. The proportion of grape variety used is 55% Pinot Noir - 15 to 20% Pinot Meunier - 28 to 33% Chardonnay. Madame Clicquot's wine displays a superb marriage of freshness and power, gorgeous and deceptively pale colour with fine, persistent bubbles - a poised, delicately bready nose - and on the palate a richness of fruit and mouth-filling mousse that lingers long. Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label manages to reconcile two opposing factors - forcefulness and finesse - and to hold them in perfect balance.