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.
From the windswept edge of Gueux, Les Béguines is the wine that changed the conversation around pinot meunier. Planted in the 1950s by his grandmother and farmed without chemicals, this tiny two-hectare parcel gives rise to a Champagne that feels more like a dialogue with the vineyard than a product of it.
The 2025 release offers layers that unfold slowly with crisp pear and golden apple, toasted almond and wild herbs, with a touch of chamomile and seashell at the edge. Aged in old oak and bottled with no dosage, it moves across the palate with silken grip and a pulse of mineral tension. The finish lingers like a thought you don’t want to forget. This is a wine that stands entirely on its own.
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