After her husband's untimely death, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together.
Steering the company through dizzying political and financial reversals, she defies her critics and revolutionises the champagne industry to become one of the world's first great businesswomen.
'[S]ustains a tone of mystery and wonder from start to finish' - Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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