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.

Fac-simile is Prévost's rosé, sourced from the same Les Béguines vineyard as the flagship cuvée, but from a small intra-parcel selection of pinot meunier vines that produce unusually small, concentrated berries. The wine is roughly 87% Les Béguines base wine blended with 13% still red meunier, fermented spontaneously without sulfur, and aged for ten months in 228-liter Burgundy pièces. The bottling is done by gravity, without machine or electricity. Production hovers around 3,000 bottles per year.

The wine is delicately perfumed with spiced red fruit, wild strawberry, and dried rose, with the saline mineral lift of the Les Béguines terroir running underneath. Layered and slow to unfold, with striking textural depth.