Jerome Prevost Champagne Extra Brut La Closerie Les Beguines ['23 Base] NV NO20230830 and ripe fruit

and ripe fruit

a chalky lift on the back palate

and intense yet lean

Rare Wine Co

so this is Pinot with real transparency and a bit of edge

Jerome Prevost Champagne Extra Brut La Closerie Les Beguines ['23 Base] NV NO20230830 and ripe fruitJerome Prevost is the maestro who put Pinot Meunier on the map as a serious, terroir driven grape, and Les Beguines is his signature wine, named for the single parcel in Gueux from which it comes. Bottled extra brut to let the fruit and soil speak without distraction, it's 100% Meunier of remarkable depth, texture and personality, the antithesis of slick industrial Champagne. Beloved by the wine cognoscenti and genuinely hard to find, it rewards