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NV Jérôme Prévost La Closerie Les Béguines  Extra Brut

NV Jérôme Prévost La Closerie Les Béguines Extra Brut

$300.00Price

Champagne from Champagne, France

Vintage: 20NV

Volume:750ml

 

🌿Sustainable Wine🌿
🌒Byodynamic Wine🌒

 

Like a number of our favorite European growers, Champagne’s Jérôme Prévost is revered, but only within a tiny segment of the wine world. Most Champagne drinkers have never heard of him.

 

But the serious Champagne enthusiasts who know his wines worship them. Though his first vintage was only in 1998, Prévost is one of the half dozen growers whose Champagnes are most coveted in the marketplace. He has also changed the course of Champagne history, by giving respect and prestige to the once-lowly Pinot Meunier grape.

 

His iconic La Closerie “Les Béguines” proved that Meunier is capable, entirely on its own, of producing Champagne of such explosive complexity that we wonder why it wasn’t discovered before.

 

The power and surreal complexity of Les Béguines has demonstrated just how under-appreciated Meunier has been historically, with many of the Grande Marque houses dismissing the grape almost entirely. Krug was one of the few Grandes Marques to openly tout its greatness, including healthy percentages in some of its most famous vintages.

 

But it was left to Prévost not only to bring Meunier out of the shadows, but to prove unequivocally its greatness, by presenting  it on its own, with no supporting cast.

 

Consequently, no grower is more closely identified with Pinot Meunier than Jérôme Prévost. Other less talented growers must assume he practices some sort of alchemy to extract such energy from the Meunier grapes in his tiny two-hectare Les Béguines vineyard, located in the little-known village of Gueux on the Petite-Montagne de Reims.

 

In fact, there is no magic; there’s only the selection massale vines and viticulture that is entirely by hand and without chemicals.

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