Champagne La Closerie (Jérôme Prévost)

Champagne La Closerie is the work of Agnès and Jérôme Prévost in Gueux, northwest of Reims, where the estate centres on Les Béguines. Jérôme took over his grandmother’s parcel in 1987; the first estate vintage followed in 1999, after years of friendship and guidance from Anselme Selosse. Les Béguines is a single two-hectare block on calcareous sand, planted mainly to Pinot Meunier, with smaller plantings of Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.

Vineyard work is done by hand and the soils are cultivated; insecticides were abandoned in 1994 and herbicides in 1996. After spontaneous fermentation, the wines spend ten months on their full lees in wooden vessels before gravity bottling. The wines are extra brut.