NV Jérôme Prévost La Closerie Les Béguines Extra Brut Somm Cellars

Champagne from Champagne, FranceVintage: 20NVVolume:750ml 🌿Sustainable Wine🌿🌒Byodynamic Wine🌒 Like a number of our favorite European growers, Champagne’s Jérôme Prévost is revered, but only within a tiny segment of the wine world. Most Champagne drinkers have never heard of him. But the serious Champagne enthusiasts who know his wines worship them. Though his first vintage was only in 1998, Prévost is one of the half dozen growers whose Champagnes are most coveted in the marketplace. He has also changed the course of Champagne history, by giving respect and prestige to the once-lowly Pinot Meunier grape. His iconic La Closerie “Les Béguines" proved that Meunier is capable, entirely on its own, of producing Champagne of such explosive complexity that we wonder why it wasn’t discovered before. The power and surreal complexity of Les Béguines has demonstrated just how under-appreciated Meunier has been historically, with many of the Grande Marque houses dismissing ...