Jérôme Prévost is one of Champagne’s most influential grower-producers, known for redefining the potential of pinot meunier and ushering in a new era of site-specific, vintage-driven wines. Based in the village of Gueux in the Petite Montagne de Reims, Prévost founded his estate, La Closerie, in 1998 after inheriting the two-hectare vineyard Les Béguines from his grandmother. The vines, planted in the 1950s to massale selection meunier, sit on a rare band of sandy, fossil-rich topsoil over chalk—a terroir long prized but largely overlooked in modern Champagne.

Guided early on by Anselme Selosse, Prévost has always worked outside convention. His wines are fermented with native yeasts in used barrique and demi-muid, bottled with no dosage, and aged for just 16 months under cork, short by Champagne standards, but intentional. Prévost believes the most compelling evolution happens in bottle. Farming is organic, yields are exceptionally low, and the approach in both vineyard and cellar is built on transparency, precision, and trust in the raw material. The result is Champagne that is tactile, exacting, and unmistakably of his hand.

With & (Esperluette), Jérôme Prévost offers a new perspective on his corner of the Petite Montagne. First produced in 2021, this cuvée blends fruit from Les Béguines with neighboring sites in Gueux that share the same marine fossil-studded sands and clays. While not all the fruit comes from his own vines, Prévost farms several of the parcels himself and determines the harvest and sorting with quiet but clear imprint of authorship.

Fermented in old barrels and bottled with minimal dosage, the wine is bright and expressive, with aromas of orchard fruit, walnut skin, citrus peel, and dried flowers. The texture is supple and open-knit, with a gentle curve to the palate and a saline edge that lingers. It’s less austere than Les Béguines, but unmistakably Prévost showing detailed, beguiling, and full of purpose in the glass.

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