By Anne Brodie A radical feminist who changed the wine landscape for all time is celebrated in Thomas Napper’s Widow Clicquot. It’s 1840 in the fertile Champagne region of France. Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, played with authority by Haley Bennett is married to François (Tom Sturridge) …
Haley Bennett Plays Pioneer Who Single-Handedly Changed the Patriarchal French Wine Industry.
France’s Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot played by Haley Bennett was what we’d call today a radical feminist; she singlehandedly saved their vineyard when her husband died, grew it into a prestige brand that we still drink today, against the misogyny of the early 1800s. Her story is a triumph, …