Christina Haack Dreamed of Launching Her Own Champagne Brand ‘For as Long as I Can Remember’ (Exclusive)

Christina Haack's agelong emotion matter pinch champagne is now her marque caller business.

The HGTV prima launched Clé Cachée, her signature brut, connected Sept. 29 pinch a constricted merchandise of 30,000 bottles. "I've been a champagne woman for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember," nan designer, 42, tells PEOPLE successful this week's screen story. But connected a travel to Napa Valley pinch her fellow Chris Larocca, 52, her "obsession" turned into a business plan.

She took respective trips to Reims and Épernay successful France complete nan past twelvemonth to study much arsenic she developed nan product. "I didn’t conscionable slap my sanction connected a bottle. I picked everything, from nan finest Grand Cru grapes to nan sweetener content," which she says is little than 1 Starburst candy per glass.

Aside from her interior creation business, Christina & Kylie, this is nan first institution nan prima has launched. “I’ve been really picky astir putting my sanction connected things, and this is my first merchandise wherever I touched each azygous item of it from conception to execution,” she says. 

"I'm decidedly tense [for nan release] because I did prime each azygous spot of this," she say. "But I've had experts and friends that are really into champagne do unsighted tastings and everyone has picked it complete nan different large labels. So that makes maine consciousness confident."

As for what to brace nan bubbles with, Haack is simply a instrumentality of charcuterie aliases caviar but promises there's nary incorrect measurement to bask it.

The sanction Clé Cachée intends "hidden key" successful French, and symbolizes that “we each clasp nan cardinal to having nan life that we want,” says Haack,

It's particularly symbolic to nan mom of 3 successful this infinitesimal successful her life.

"For nan first time, it feels for illustration my decisions are 100% my own," she tells PEOPLE while discussing moving connected from her 3rd matrimony and enjoying a caller consciousness of "calm" pinch Larocca and her 3 children, Taylor, 15, Brayden, 10 and Hudson, 6. "I make my ain destiny. And truthful that feels really."

"I consciousness for illustration before, group astir maine person tried to return power complete my destiny . . . person felt insecure astir my destiny. And truthful it's for illustration I was perpetually surviving successful a authorities of people-pleasing," she shares. Now, nan only personification she's worried pleasing is herself — and hopefully, her caller customers.