Champagne La Closerie, Jérôme Prévost, &, Extra Brut

Champagne La Closerie, Jérôme Prévost, &, Extra Brut

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Champagne La Closerie, Jérôme Prévost, &, Extra Brut

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Description

A straw-copper hue, the NV Champagne & Extra Brut is based on the 2020 vintage and is generous and giving out of the gate. It opens with juicy aromas of strawberry, orange sherbet, brioche, shortbread, white flowers, and almond. Medium to full-bodied, it floods the palate with pure fruit and salted citrus on the finish. Long on the palate, it’s incredible now but will have a solid drinking window ahead of it.

Drink 2024 - 2040

Audrey Frick, JebDunnuck.com (November 2023)

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Critics reviews

Antonio Galloni, Vinous92/100

Dosage is 2.5 grams per litre. Disgorged: October, 2022.

The NV Extra-Brut Esperluette is 100% Meunier, a blend of sandy soils in Gueux and clay soils in Janvry, based on 2020 plus 20% reserve wines from 2019. Its personality is similar to Les Beguines (the wine), but there is a bit less depth and overall structure. Those qualities, though, yield a Champagne that is quite expressive in the early going. Scents of dried orchard fruit, crushed flowers, spice, ginger and dried herbs all come together effortlessly. This is such a pretty and expressive Champagne.

Drink 2022 - 2030

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (May 2022)

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Wine Advocate96/100

Denser and more compact than its 2019 counterpart, the NV Extra Brut Les Béguines LC 20 reveals inviting aromas of pear, confit citrus, mirabelle plum and spices, followed by a medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated palate that's vinous and sapid, built around chalky structure and concluding with a penetrating finish. While it can be approached now, a few years' patience will pay dividends.

Drink 2023 - 2040

William Kelley, Wine Advocate (December 2023)

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Jeb Dunnuck94/100

A straw-copper hue, the NV Champagne & Extra Brut is based on the 2020 vintage and is generous and giving out of the gate. It opens with juicy aromas of strawberry, orange sherbet, brioche, shortbread, white flowers, and almond. Medium to full-bodied, it floods the palate with pure fruit and salted citrus on the finish. Long on the palate, it’s incredible now but will have a solid drinking window ahead of it.

Drink 2024 - 2040

Audrey Frick, JebDunnuck.com (November 2023)

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About this WINE

Champagne Prévost

Champagne Prévost

Jérôme Prévost's winemaking journey began in 1987 when he inherited a small plot of vines in the village of Gueux in the western part of Champagne. At that time, the grapes from his vineyard were sold to large Champagne houses. However, in the early 2000s, Prévost decided to take a different approach and began producing his own Champagne under his eponymous label, Champagne Jérôme Prévost.

What sets Prévost apart is his commitment to organic and biodynamic viticulture. He employs sustainable farming practices, avoiding using chemicals and synthetic fertilizers and instead focusing on enhancing the health of the vineyards naturally. Prévost believes healthy soils and vines are essential for producing high-quality wines with a strong sense of terroir.

The vineyard holdings of Jérôme Prévost are small, with a total of about two hectares (five acres) spread across multiple parcels. The most notable vineyard is Les Béguines, a one-hectare plot planted with Pinot Meunier, Prévost's main grape variety. He also has smaller vineyards named Les Goulats and Les Bassets.

The winemaking style is minimalistic, using traditional methods, including hand-harvesting the grapes and employing gentle pressing techniques to extract the juice. Prévost allows the wines to undergo spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, and he avoids malolactic fermentation, preserving the natural acidity and freshness in his Champagnes.

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Blanc de Noirs

Blanc de Noirs

Blanc de Noirs describes a wine produced entirely from black grapes. In Champagne, Blanc de Noirs cuvée can be made from the two black grapes permitted within the appellation, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. Bollinger's prestige cuvée Vieilles Vignes Françaises, from ungrafted, old Pinot Noir vines, has set the yardstick in a style that is now produced by a number of other Champagne houses.

A typical Blanc de Noirs cuvée has a deep golden colour, and can be more intensely flavoured than the classic non-vintage, multi-grape blend.

Recommended Producers: Cedric Bouchard, Bollinger

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Champagne blend

Champagne blend

Which grapes are included in the blend, and their proportion, is one of the key factors determining the style of most Champagnes. Three grapes are used - Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier.

26% of vineyards in Champagne are planted with Chardonnay and it performs best on the Côtes des Blancs and on the chalk slopes south of Epernay. It is relatively simple to grow, although it buds early and thus is susceptible to spring frosts. It produces lighter, fresher wines than those from Burgundy and gives finesse, fruit and elegance to the final blend. It is the sole grape in Blancs de Blancs, which are some of the richest long-lived Champagnes produced.

Pinot Noir accounts for nearly 40% of the plantings in Champagne and lies at the heart of most blends - it gives Champagne its body, structure, strength and grip. It is planted across Champagne and particularly so in the southern Aube district.

The final component is Pinot Meunier and this constitutes nearly 35% of the plantings. Its durability and resistance to spring frosts make the Marne Valley, a notorious frost pocket, its natural home. It ripens well in poor years and produces a soft, fruity style of wine that is ideal for blending with the more assertive flavours of Pinot Noir. Producers allege that Pinot Meunier lacks ageing potential, but this does not deter Krug from including around 15% of it in their final blends.


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When is a wine ready to drink?

We provide drinking windows for all our wines. Alongside the drinking windows there is a bottle icon and a maturity stage. Bear in mind that the best time to drink a wine does also depend on your taste.

Not ready

These wines are very young. Whilst they're likely to have lots of intense flavours, their acidity or tannins may make them feel austere. Although it isn't "wrong" to drink these wines now, you are likely to miss out on a lot of complexity by not waiting for them to mature.

Ready - youthful

These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.

Ready - at best

These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.

Ready - mature

These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.