Widow Clicquot (2023) on Netflix
Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot is widowed when her husband François dies young. She will not sell his vineyards, and uses her own money to keep the failing winery going.
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- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.3/105,669 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes79%
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Plot summary
In Napoleonic France, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot is widowed when her husband François dies young. He was a winemaker whose business did not prosper. She refuses to sell his vineyards and puts her own money into the failing winery. Her planting methods are not conventional, and her father-in-law Phillipe and her workers are hesitant. She makes a pink champagne that impresses Louis Bohne, a wine merchant and a friend of the family.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Widow Clicquot (2023)
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- Widow Clicquot is based on the real story of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, who took over her late husband François's failing winery in Napoleonic France and built it into the Veuve Clicquot champagne dynasty.
- Barbe-Nicole Clicquot was brought to trial for violating a law that prevented women from owning a business, with her accusers claiming she refused to marry wine merchant Louis Bohne so she could keep the winery.
- Barbe-Nicole Clicquot collaborated with wine merchant Louis Bohne to smuggle her champagne to Amsterdam in defiance of Napoleon's trade embargoes.
- After a shipment to Amsterdam was lost, Louis Bohne got a few bottles of the sweet wine to Russia, where it became popular just before the Great Comet of 1811.
