Veuve Clicquot’s 1990 is an excellent Champagne vintage.

The 1990 Champagne vintage produced a bumper crop of ripe, concentrated grapes. Conditions were perfect, with a long warm summer and sufficient rains in September to prevent drought.

Veuve Clicquot is named after Nicole-Barbe Ponsardin and her husband Francois Clicquot (who died at just 30 in 1805). Nicole-Barbe made the bold move (at the time) of taking on the running of the House herself, and is responsible for ‘Veuve’ (lit. widow) appearing in the name of the House. A woman of great vision, her success in building the prestige of the House made her one of the most successful businesswomen of her time.

"[Veuve Clicquot's] richness is exquisite. This will be a relatively long-lived, intense Champagne." eRobertParker.com