War and Booze: The Story of Veuve Clicquot, Napoleon, and the First Modern Champagne

Image courtesy of Veuve Clicquot.  I came across this fascinating story over the past week and couldn’t resist running it down and sharing it with readers (in the same way I did several months back with landpower’s role in the Rosetta Stone discovery).  Much, much, much, more important, however: my wife is a huge Veuve Clicquot fan and…