Madame Pommery: Creator of Brut Champagne Rosenberg Rebecca
Madame Pommery: Creator of Brut Champagne Rosenberg Rebecca Champagne, France, 1860. With no experience, the forty-year-old widow decides to make champagne. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and…
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Madame Pommery: Creator of Brut Champagne Rosenberg Rebecca
Champagne, France, 1860. With no experience, the forty-year-old widow decides to make champagne. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and orphanage founder, loses her husband and is forced to support her family.
When champagne makers refuse to teach her their craft, she forges ahead on her own and secretly begins the excavation of champagne caves under the Reims city dump.Soon after, her son and her entire crew are conscripted to fight the Franco-Prussian war, leaving Madame Pommery alone to struggle with her champagne dreams. Her unique vision is to change it from a sweet dessert beverage to a dry, crisp wine to be enjoyed anytime. After Napoleon and a hundred thousand French troops are captured, the Prussians invaded France, and Prussian General Frederick Franz occupies Madame Pommery's house as his army headquarters.
Undaunted, Pommery uses her secret wine