18/06/2026
She took over a champagne house in the middle of a war, got on her bicycle, and refused to let Bollinger lose its identity. Then she invented the R.D., a champagne so ahead of its time that no one else was even close. Oh, and she happened to leave behind the most quoted line in champagne history. Iconic.
Another chapter in Les Veuves, our series on the extraordinary widows who shaped champagne as we know it.