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Jérôme Prévost Champagne La Closerie Extra Brut Les Beguines
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Champagne La Closerie Les Béguines, Jérôme Prévost
Prévost’s champagne is never blended, always coming from a single harvest, as well as from a single vineyard, a 2.2ha (5.5-acre) parcel of 40-year-old Pinot Meunier vines in Gueux called “Les Béguines”, which he inherited in 1987. Prévost releases his wines unusually early, preferring barrel ageing on indigenous yeasts to extended ageing on the lees. Prévost has second-use barrels from Coche-Dury (the master of Meursault) at his cottage domaine “La Closerie”. Because the wines are typically disgorged and sold two years after the harvest, well before the three year minimum of lees ageing required for vintage-dated Champagne, they do not carry the vintage on the label (this is the 2012 harvest – LC12). Regrettably only small quantities are produced.
Prévost’s champagne is never blended, always coming from a single harvest, as well as from a single vineyard, a 2.2ha (5.5-acre) parcel of 40-year-old Pinot Meunier vines in Gueux called “Les Béguines”, which he inherited in 1987. Prévost releases his wines unusually early, preferring barrel ageing on indigenous yeasts to extended ageing on the lees. Prévost has second-use barrels from Coche-Dury (the master of Meursault) at his cottage domaine “La Closerie”. Because the wines are typically disgorged and sold two years after the harvest, well before the three year minimum of lees ageing required for vintage-dated Champagne, they do not carry the vintage on the label (this is the 2012 harvest – LC12). Regrettably only small quantities are produced.