She sold over 10,000 bottles of champagne for the equivalent of £70 each and saved her business. Within weeks Russia’s Tsar Alexander I declared that ‘Veuve’ Clicquot, or ‘Widow ...

You might expect a designer collaborating with a champagne house to conjure up an aesthetically pleasing bottle or label, and perhaps some merch to match. But this was not the case for Stella ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 2010 Dominique Demarville, cellar master for the champagne house Veuve Clicquot, got what he thought was a joke call ...