Who is the founder of the French Champagne house based in Reims which is featured at the Boodles Challenge?
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Boodles Challenge The Boodles Tennis Challenge (former Boodle and Dunthorne Champions Challenge) is an international five-day tennis exhibition held at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire, England. In coordination with Boodles, a luxury jeweler, it was initially founded by veteran sports agent Patricio Apey as an event to help players hone their grass court skills in the lead-up to Wimbledon. It is played in a similar style to the AAMI Classic giving the players at least three matches each and allowing non competition players to appear in one match per a day. Over recent years Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Tim Henman, Marat Safin, James Blake, Andy Roddick, Fernando González, David Nalbandian, Novak Djokovic, Fernando Verdasco, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Andy Murray have all appeared. Since its inception, The Boodles has turned into a lifestyle event featuring British luxury brands such as Boodles, Veuve Clicquot and H.R. Owen.
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Veuve Clicquot Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin (] ) is a French Champagne house based in Reims, specializing in premium products. Founded in 1772 by Philippe Clicquot-Muiron, Veuve Clicquot played an important role in establishing champagne as a favored drink of "haute bourgeoisie" and nobility throughout Europe. The 1811 comet vintage of Veuve Clicquot is theorized to have been the first truly "modern" Champagne due to the advancements in the "méthode champenoise" which Veuve Clicquot pioneered through the technique of "remuage".
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Dawnine Dyer Dawnine Sample Dyer (born July 3, 1950) is an American winemaker who pioneered the use of champagne making methods in California’s fledgling sparkling wine industry in the 1970s.
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Heidsieck &amp; Co Heidsieck & Co "Monopole" is a champagne house located in the Champagne region of France.
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Pommery Champagne Pommery is a Champagne house located in Reims. The house was founded as Pommery & Greno in 1858 by Alexandre Louis Pommery and Narcisse Greno with the primary business being wool trading. Under the guidance of Alexandre's widow, Louise Pommery, the firm was dedicated to Champagne production and soon became one of the region's largest Champagne brands. Champagne Pommery was the first house to commercialize a brut Champagne in 1874.
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Paul Goerg Paul Goerg is a Champagne producer based in the Vertus region of Champagne. The co-operative, founded in 1950, produces both vintage and non-vintage "cuvee" as well as a "blanc de blancs" Chardonnay Champagne.
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Bubble Baba Challenge The Bubble Baba Challenge is an event held in the rapids of Vuoksi River in Russia whereby contestants race in the water using sex dolls as flotation devices. It began in 2003 and is staged every year. In 2011 around 800 people participated in the race, but in 2012 it was banned by the authorities because of "dangerously high water levels" work that was being done to repair the roads and rail bridges downstream. Organisers disputed the ban, claiming that it was only effected as part of a country-wide clamp down on mass gatherings.
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Walther von Mumm Moritz Karl Ferdinand Wilhelm Hermann Walther Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1887 – 1959) was a German businessman and bobsledder who competed in the early 1930s. He was the one-time "champagne king" of Rheims in France, as part of the Mumm champagne making family.
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La Martiniquaise La Martiniquaise is France's second-largest spirits group, founded in 1934, by the father of the current head, billionaire Jean-Pierre Cayard.
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Bruno Paillard Bruno Paillard is a Champagne producer based in Reims in the Champagne region. The eponymously named house was founded in 1981 by Bruno Paillard (born 1953), after he had worked as a broker in the region since 1975. The first own vineyards were bought in 1994, and the house's own 26 ha supplies around one-third of the total grape need for the annual production of around 500,000 bottles.
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Piper-Heidsieck PIPER-HEIDSIECK is a Champagne house from the Champagne region of France. Founded by Florens-Louis Heidsieck on July 16, 1785 in Reims, the Heidsieck name was combined with the Piper name in October 1839. In the late 1980s, PIPER-HEIDSIECK became part of the Rémy Cointreau wine and spirits group, and was sold in 2011 to EPI (Européenne de Participation Industrielle), a privately owned holding company of French luxury brands.
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Florian Bellanger Florian Bellanger ] (born April 20, 1968) is a French pastry chef, formerly the executive pastry chef at the famous Parisian pastry and candy shop, Fauchon. He is a permanent judge on the Food Network's competition series "Cupcake Wars", appearing in over nine seasons and 135 episodes to date.
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Maison Louis Latour Maison Louis Latour is an important négociant-éléveur of red and white wines in Burgundy, France. Currently run by the seventh Louis Latour, Louis-Fabrice Latour, the company has remained family-run since its foundation in 1797 and has built a reputation for tradition and innovation. This Domaine has the largest Grand Cru property in the Cote d'Or with a total of 28.63 hectares (71.58 acres). In 1997 Louis Latour was admitted into the exclusive club of the Hénokiens. This club only admits companies that remain family owned, have a history of 200 years' experience and still bears the name of the founder.
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William Chase (entrepreneur) William Chase, born in Herefordshire, UK. He is the founder and former owner of the Tyrrells crisp brand and his current business ventures include Chase Distillery, Ltd. that produces Chase Vodka and Williams Gin.
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Tad Low Tad Low (born Josiah Orne Low IV on September 26, 1966) is an American businessman and media entrepreneur. He is the creator and producer of television shows, including "Pop-Up Video" and "Pants-Off Dance-Off". He currently helms Spin The Bottle, a multimedia content company based in New York City. Low’s work has been noted in the press for its ironic sensibility, and his shows simultaneously critique and celebrate popular culture in all of its banal and sublime incarnations. The paradoxical nature of Low's aesthetic was articulated by "New York" magazine when it dubbed "Pants-Off Dance-Off" both "brilliant and lowbrow."
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Boodle's Boodle's is a London gentlemen's club, founded in January 1762, at No. 50 Pall Mall, London, by Lord Shelburne, the future Marquess of Lansdowne and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Champagne Classic (BRC) The Champagne Classic is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged two years old, at set weights, over a distance of 1200 metres at Doomben Racecourse, Brisbane, Australia during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. Total prizemoney is A$175,000.
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Drappier Drappier is a Champagne producer based in the Urville region of Champagne. The house, founded in 1808, produces both vintage and non-vintage "cuvee" as well as a prestige wine known as "Grande Sendrée".
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Domaine de la Vougeraie Domaine de la Vougeraie is a Burgundy wine producer in the town of Premeaux-Prissey, France. They produce wine from vineyareds in the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune.
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Moët &amp; Chandon Moët & Chandon (] ), or Moët, is a French fine winery and co-owner of the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE. Moët et Chandon is one of the world's largest expansive champagne producers and a prominent champagne house. Moët et Chandon was established in 1743 by Claude Moët, and today owns 1150 ha of vineyards, and annually produces approximately 28,000,000 bottles of champagne.
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Château de Condé The Château de Condé is a private estate in Condé-en-Brie, Aisne, France, set in a park on the Champagne route 100 km from Paris.
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Chase Distillery Chase Distillery, Ltd. is a British single-estate distillery based in Herefordshire, United Kingdom. William Chase, the former owner and founder of Tyrrells crisps, founded the family-run business in 2008. Using ingredients sourced on-site at Rosemaund Farm, the distillery focuses its production on potato vodka, gin and cider.