Böcker av Rebecca Rosenberg

Champagne, France, 1860. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and orphanage founder, loses her husband and is forced to support her family. With no experience, the forty-year-old widow decides to make champagne ... When champagne makers refuse to teach her their craft, she forges ahead on her own and secretly begins the excavation of champagne caves under the Reims city dump ... But when her former lover, a Scottish Baron, unexpectedly proposes marriage, Madame Pommery must choose between nobility and her passionate quest for fine champagne and the most beautiful winery in the world.--Publisher.

Based on the life of businesswoman and legendary champagne maker Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin (Veuve Clicquot), who overcame war, personal tragedy, and the restrictions of the Napoleonic Code to create an iconic brand that still exists today.