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.

This is the other side of the mirror. While Les Béguines reflects the quiet brilliance of a single vineyard in Gueux, this Grand Cru cuvée reveals what happens when Prévost applies his singular vision to fruit from Champagne’s most exalted sites. Sourced from carefully tended parcels of pinot noir and chardonnay grown by like-minded vignerons, this is not a departure, rather it’s an expansion.

Vinified with the same restraint and precision as the rest of the La Closerie wines, the Grand Cru is fermented with native yeasts in old oak, aged under cork for 18 months, and bottled without dosage. The 2025 release is explosive and intricate with layers of orchard fruit, citrus oil, crushed stone, and spice wrapped in a structure that is both powerful and exacting. There’s depth, but no heaviness. Energy, but without fatigue. Just a Champagne of stunning beauty from one of the region’s most exacting voices.

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