MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW
This novel is about a widow named Madame Pommery and her vision to make entirely a unique and beautiful Champagne where she gets tutored by Champagne makers without imitating Veve Clicquot and Moet who dominates the market. Madame Pommery's husband passed away leaving behind his failing wool and wine business. Monsieur Greno owns half the business and he must be paid as well as she had a mortage on the building to be paid along with the payment of her son's education. Madame Pommery had dedicated her life to the orphanage started by her at the Saint Remi Auxillary. Reynad Wolfe, the young Germán banker, and executor of Madame Pommery's husband gave free financial advice to them which they enjoyed.
Madame Pommery wished to pay off the mortgage by continuing with her husband's business as selling would leave little for her and their children after liquidating, whereas Greno wanted to leave Pommery's business as it was too much for him. French wool was not selling as Britain lowered their prices and nobody would buy it as the French people faced with a breaking point with all the new taxes to pay Napolean.
I have never heard of an ambitious go-getter and inspiring woman named Madame Pommery until I read this book, about her jaw-dropping discoveries to create the first brut champagne to the world with great commercial success, the Pommery Nature in 1974. Her vision and her personality were seen in her champagne breaking the normal norms of sweet wine. The legacy of Pommery wines is pure and fine. Madame Pommery is known as a cultured, educated, and fashionable woman. She inherited her husband's winery but she loved champagne and becomes determined to make champagne. Even being told that woman especially a widow cannot get into champagne making business as it is dangerous and risky the bank cannot afford. Even then Madame Pommery had a vision and faith to create a champagne that is entirely refreshing, and beautiful and started making it. With her said traits Pommery becomes a champagne house and exhibits in the Great London Exhibition. What drove her is the elusive process of creating the perfect champagne. I highly recommend this captivating and engaging story based on true events to historical fiction readers.
Madame Pommery (Champagne Widow #2) by Rebecca Rosenberg
Publication Date: March 21, 2023
Lion Heart Publishing
Genre: Historical Fiction
Source: A complimentary copy of the book was given to me by Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours in exchange for my honest review.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
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. Her unique vision is to change it from a sweet dessert beverage to a dry, crisp wine to be enjoyed anytime. 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.
Soon after, her son and her entire crew are conscripted to fight the Franco-Prussian war, leaving Madame Pommery alone to struggle with her champagne dreams. After Napoleon and a hundred thousand French troops are captured, the Prussians invaded France, and Prussian General Frederick Franz occupies Madame Pommery’s house as his army headquarters. Undaunted, Pommery uses her secret wine caves to hide the Francs-Tireurs, resistance fighters for France, while she plans to build a spectacular castle winery above the caves.
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.
Based on a true story, Madame Pommery is a heroic novel about a mother and widow who fights the Prussians, the social class system, champagne patriarchs, and champagne tastes to create a champagne legacy.
"The sun-drenched vineyards of France, a real-life heroine who against all odds refuses to give up her dreams... and champagne. What's not to love?” Barbara Davis, Best-selling author of The Echo of Old Books
Giveaway
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ABOUT THE AUTHORCalifornia native Rebecca Rosenberg lives on a lavender farm with her family in Sonoma, the Valley of the Moon, where she and her husband founded the largest lavender product company in America. A long-time student of Jack London’s work and an avid fan of his daring wife, Charmian, Rosenberg is a graduate of the Stanford Writing Certificate Program. Her books include: GOLD DIGGER, the Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor, The Secret Life of Mrs. London, Lavender Fields of America, and the Champagne Widows series.
For more information, please visit Rebecca's website and blog. You can also find her on Amazon, BookBub, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads.
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