# Veuve Clicquot Flight **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 28, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veuve-clicquot-flight/370577 "2006-08-28T21:20:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xiix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d6d6ee/32.png) [@xiix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xiix)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veuve-clicquot-flight/370577/1 "2006-08-28T21:20:42Z")
I was hoping one of the teeming millions might be able to help elucidate a rare champagne known as Veuve Cliquot Flight. I couldn’t seem to find any info on Veuve’s website, but it is listed on the winelist of a champagne bar [here](http://www.bubblelounge.com/nychampagnes.shtml) and mentioned in a forum post [here](http://www.thenoiseboard.com/lofiversion/index.php/t101737.html) . So what is it, whats it like and where can I get some? ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veuve-clicquot-flight/370577/2 "2006-08-28T22:22:38Z")
A “flight” in terms of wines is (I don’t know the correct terminology) a “tasting menu” where you get several vintages of the same wine or different wines from the same vineyard. Your first link seems to me to refer to this. The second link clearly refers to something different, but it is also written by someone who sounds like a pretentious posuer who doesn’t know what he is talking about. I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veuve-clicquot-flight/370577/3 "2006-08-28T22:39:28Z")
Lamar nailed it. A flight is simply a tasting of several wines. A vertical flight is different vintages of the same wine from the same winery. A horizontal flight would be wines of the same vintage but different wineries. Usually of the same varietal or style. The Vueve Flight on the Bubble Lounge’s website is listed as Yellow Label Brut and La Grand Dame. ---
**Author:** ![xiix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d6d6ee/32.png) [@xiix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xiix)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veuve-clicquot-flight/370577/4 "2006-08-29T02:09:26Z")
wow, thats far more interesting than an some rare veuve vintage, thanks all! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veuve-clicquot-flight/370577/5 "2006-08-29T02:27:34Z")
:: paging **Veuve\_CliquotNJ** :: :: paging **Veuve\_CliquotNJ** :: I thought this thread was going to be about said Doper’s holidays or simething. ---
**Author:** ![xiix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d6d6ee/32.png) [@xiix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xiix)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veuve-clicquot-flight/370577/6 "2006-08-29T02:45:47Z")
The posuer definitely confused things for me, he said “You haven’t lived until you’ve sat in the VIP room of the Bubble Lounge sipping flutes of vintage Veuve Clicquot Flight (no, no, not that Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label bullshit)”, which is ironic, because the Bubble Lounge’s flight is 50 % yellow label. pfff.