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Dry Extract Interview: Didier Mariotti of Veuve Clicquot

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In our Dry Extract mini-interview feature we ask top professionals in the world of wine, food and travel to answer 13 deceptively simple questions in a quick-fire fashion.

Anne Krebiehl MW,
20.12.2021

Didier Mariotti is the cellar master at Champagne Veuve Clicquot. The food and beverage engineering graduate worked for Champagne G.H.Mumm and Nicolas Feuillatte before joining the famous Yellow Label.

The best advice I ever got

Stay in Champagne

My life motto

Life is too short – enjoy.

I am currently reading

Central Park by Guillaume Musso.

My most played music track

Sunny by Bobby Hebb.

If I didn’t do my current job I would be

Pilot.

Skill I don’t currently possess but would like to have 

Cooking.

My favourite kind of exercise

Golf.

I relax 

By flying.

I collect

Watches and wine.

My essential newspaper/magazine

Le Canard Enchaine

My desert-island wine

Champagne.

I have learnt a lot from

Everyone

My last meal and sip will be

A Burgundian Pinot Noir from Armand Rousseau and Croque Monsieur.

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