WITH VEUVE CLICQUOT AND YAYOI KUSAMA, THE YEAR ENDS ON A CREATIVE NOTE. YAYOI KUSAMA IS INSPIRED BY HER ICONIC SIGNATURES, THE DOTS AND THE FLOWER, TO REINTERPRET THE NEW CASE AND BOTTLE OF LA GRANDE DAME 2012.
2012, evokes the power and delicacy of this cuvée, as well as the visionary spirit and determination of Madame Clicquot. Each of the 100 editions is numbered. The polka dots that adorn the La Grande Dame box evoke the shape of a champagne bubble and embody La Grande Dame 2012. The worlds of Maison Veuve Clicquot and Yayoi Kusama interact here to give birth to a daring collaboration.
“La Grande Dame 2012 is a wine that is both precise and airy. This new vintage offers a strong minerality, associated with the freshness of its youth. Its aging potential is immense. »Didier Mariotti,
The iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama imagines a unique creation for Maison Veuve Clicquot, which celebrates its new vintage, La Grande Dame 2012. This original creation is a tribute to the iconic “Grande Dame of Champagne”, Madame Clicquot. This is not the first meeting between these two women: in 2006, during a charity auction in Tokyo, Yayoi Kusama had already given new life to the portrait of Madame Clicquot by playing with her famous peas.
Today, the dialogue between the artist and the Maison continues and takes a new step through this creative collaboration. Yayoi Kusama is inspired by her emblematic signatures, the dots and the flower, to reinterpret the new case and the bottle of La Grande Dame 2012. This same symbol of the flower, a tribute to nature dear to the two women, is also available in an original creation, which reveals the La Grande Dame cuvée in magnum.
TWO INSPIRING WOMEN:
If more than 150 years separate them, two parallel destinies Madame Clicquot and Yayoi Kusama share many similarities that unite their remarkable destinies. Everything begins for them with an easy childhood and a strict upbringing. Nicole Barbe Ponsardin and Yayoi Kusama are both well-born and familiar with the codes that reign in the bourgeoisie of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These two women will seek to counter them throughout their lives, with one goal: not to depend on anyone and to conquer the world.
LA GRANDE DAME 2012:
Madame Clicquot is convinced of the glory that Pinot Noir grape with the broadest range of expression and the greatest potential could create the best champagne. It was her love of Pinot Noir that led her to acquire ten of the Maison’s twelve emblematic plots.
Since then, Pinot Noir has been the signature of Veuve Clicquot, it brings the structure and strength that make up the style of the House, perfectly embodied in the La Grande Dame cuvée, a tribute to “LA Grande Dame of Champagne”: Madame Clicquot .
This grape variety requires the greatest expertise of the Cellar Master, the oenological team but also the vineyard teams: everything is in the detail and precision because it is delicate to work with. It expresses itself differently depending on its terroir, its exposure and the harvest conditions. It is perhaps the grape with the widest range of expressions.
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