Girls Night Out Thursdays at Cru

Through the months of July and August, stop into Cru Wine Bar from 6 to 8 p.m. to enjoy a complimentary wine tasting. The Cru staff will have half price bottles all night for the bottle (or bottles) you like best!

July 8 | Chandon
July 15 | Veuve Clicquot
July 22 | Ruinart
July 29 | Grand Tasting

Attend four (4) out of the available 10 events (there are another 5 in August) and receive a FREE FAB BAG from Moet! Reserve your table at 303-893-9463.

How about some women and champagne history? Two very important women made legendary contributions to champagne as we know and love it today.

• In 1805, Barbe Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot became a young widow at 27 and the first woman to lead a Champagne House. This strong business woman ran her company during war time, expanded considerably and was given credit for creating the A-frame rack used in the process where sediment from secondary fermentation settles in the neck of the bottles. Her intent was to make the Champagne wines “as clear, distinct and limpid” as possible. Madame Clicquot’s personal motto was “only one quality, the finest”.
• In 1858, Jeanne Alexandrine Pommery took over her husband’s business and then created her own Champagne House. Madame Pommery was the first to store champagne in the chalk tunnels that were quarries in the third century. But she is better remembered as the first person to blend the “Brut” Champagne. Madame Pommery noticed that the over dosage of sugar tended to mask the lively, delicate taste of the wine. She found a “dry” blend then an “extra dry”.