{"id":21153,"date":"2016-02-17T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=21153"},"modified":"2016-05-02T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:23:10","slug":"champagne-cristal-rapper-roederer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/champagne-cristal-rapper-roederer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Champagnes of James Bond and Rappers: Bollinger and Cristal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Roederer<\/a>Part 2: Champagne Widows<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By the 1930s, French winemakers faced even greater challenges: a country about to go to war, a worldwide Depression that made running any business difficult, and U.S. Prohibition, which made selling luxury champagne to the lucrative American market almost impossible.<\/p>\n

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\"Camille<\/a>Camille Olry-Roederer<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This was the forbidding business environment that Camille Olry-Roederer stepped into when she took over the champagne house Louis Roederer after losing her second husband in 1932 (her first husband had died in World War I).<\/p>\n

Sales were 264,000 bottles that year, compared to 2.3 million bottles in 1876.<\/p>\n

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\"1954<\/a>1954<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"1954<\/a>1954<\/strong><\/p>\n

But like the other women of Champagne she persevered, hiring professional sales and export managers, and travelling abroad to open new markets.<\/p>\n

\"1954<\/a>1954<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Jamin<\/a>Jamin Grand Prix Am\u00e9rique 1962<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"cheval<\/a>Cheval Jamin<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Jamin<\/a>New York Herald Tribune 31 July 1960<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Gravure<\/a>Gravure 1920<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Camille<\/a>Camille Ol Roederer<\/strong><\/p>\n

She was head of the House of Roederer for forty-three years, until 1975, when her grandson, Jean-Claude Rouzaud, took on the role.\u00a0 Today, the house also makes highly regarded sparkling wine in California.<\/p>\n

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\"Pouring<\/a>Pouring Cristal<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Cristal<\/a>Cristal Ros\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cristal<\/a>Cristal Ros\u00e9 1988<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"cristal<\/a>Cristal Ros\u00e9 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"cristal<\/a>Cristal Ros\u00e9 1996<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"J.-M.<\/a>2016-\u00ae COPYRIGHT J.-M. CURIEN -\u00ae ERIC_ BRIFFARD<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"COPYRIGHT<\/a>COPYRIGHT J.-M. CURIEN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"J.-M.<\/a>2016-\u00ae COPYRIGHT -\u00ae MENTION OBLIGATOIRE PHOTO J.-M. CURIEN -\u00ae MARC_HAEBERLIN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"2007<\/a>2007 photo J.-M. CURIEN \u00a9<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"20102<\/a>2012 PHOTO J.-M. CURIEN \u00a9<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Langoustines<\/a>Langoustines Feuillantines au S\u00e9same by J.-M. CURIEN \u00a9 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"roederer<\/a>Today, the merits of Cristal, Roederer’s flagship Champagne have been put to lyrics in the rap songs of Jay-Z, P-Diddy and others, often with creative pairings, such as Cheetos.<\/p>\n

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\"Lily<\/a>Elizabeth Law de Lauriston-Boubers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of all these pioneering women, possibly the most colourful was Elizabeth Law de Lauriston-Boubers, known as Madame Jacques, or Lily, who ran the champagne house Bollinger from 1941 to 1971.a68morgan@sympatico.ca<\/p>\n

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\"Madame<\/a><\/p>\n

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Her first taste of champagne wasn\u2019t until her engagement party in 1923, before she married Jacques Bollinger, the third generation of the family to make the wine.<\/p>\n

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When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, they took 178,000 bottles of champagne, but the Bollingers agreed to keep producing the wine in order to free their employees from prison camps, and to protect their home and winery.<\/p>\n

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Despite Allied bombing to oust the Germans, a depleted labour pool, and shortages of electricity, water and gas, Madame Bollinger was usually in the vineyards by\u00a06 a.m.<\/span>, often riding her bicycle up and down the vineyard rows.<\/p>\n

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At night, with her ch\u00e2teau commandeered by the Germans, she slept in the cellars.\u00a0 U.S. liberation came not a moment too soon: on August 22, 1944, General Patton\u2019s Third Army arrived just in time to stop the retreating German army from dynamiting the Bollinger cellars.<\/p>\n

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After the war, she continued her groundbreaking work.\u00a0 In 1969, to mark her 70th birthday, she introduced Vieilles Vignes Fran\u00e7aises \u2013 the first champagne made from only pinot noir grapes.<\/p>\n

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She also created Bollinger Ros\u00e9.\u00a0 Over the thirty years that she ran the winery, she doubled its sales to more than a million bottles.\u00a0 In 1976, the French government awarded her the Ordre National du Merit.<\/p>\n

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\"Madame<\/a><\/p>\n

Madame Bollinger embodied the love of life possessed of all of these grandes dames de champagne:<\/p>\n

\u201cI drink champagne when I am happy, and when I am sad,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cSometimes I drink it when I\u2019m alone.\u00a0 When I have company I consider it obligatory.\u00a0 I trifle with it if I\u2019m not hungry, and drink it when I am.\u00a0 Otherwise I never touch it \u2013 unless I am thirsty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Part 2: Champagne Widows By the 1930s, French winemakers faced even greater challenges: a country about to go to war, a worldwide Depression that made running any business difficult, and U.S. Prohibition, which made selling luxury champagne to the lucrative American market almost impossible.   Camille Olry-Roederer   This was the forbidding business environment that Camille Olry-Roederer stepped into when she took over the champagne house Louis Roederer after losing her second husband in 1932 (her first husband had died in World War I). Sales were 264,000 bottles that year, compared to 2.3 million bottles in 1876.   1954 1954 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1343,338,113,349,348,319,341,1342,337,1340,1001,342,1092,343,344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academy-awards","category-academy-awards-wine","category-best-wines","category-france-wine","category-french-wine","category-learn-wine","category-making-wine","category-movie-wines","category-oscar-wine","category-oscars","category-rose","category-winemakers","category-winemaking","category-women-and-wine","category-women-winemakers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21153"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27194,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}