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Bought directly from Champagne Jerome Prevost UK agent, the bottles are stored in bond at London City Bond Eton Park, in ideal conditions at a constant 13°C. For same-day deliveries, small quantities are kept in our office cellar, where the temperature is maintained between 11–13°C. We source all our bottles directly from the Maison or their official UK office, eliminating the risk of poor storage. This is crucial, as champagne quality is highly sensitive to heat: temperatures above 18°C accelerate maturity significantly, which compromises quality.
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5 × 75cl from 20th Aug We keep some stock in our London Warehouse. Large volumes take 24 hours from our out of London warehouse.
Jérôme Prévost is one of Champagne’s most revered grower-producers and a leading champion for Pinot Meunier. La Closerie Les Béguines 2022 is made predominantly from Pinot Meunier, with small amounts of Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay. Aged 14–17 months on lees, it offers vibrant orchard fruit, subtle spice, and a precise, chalky finish.
Jérôme Prévost is regarded as one of Champagne’s most revered grower-producers and a leading champion of pinot meunier. Based in the village of Gueux, west of Reims, he began his domaine in 1987 after inheriting a small parcel of old-vine meunier known as Les Béguines from his mother — who famously challenged him to prove he could succeed as a winemaker. For the first decade Prévost sold his fruit to the négociants, lacking both a cellar and the means to vinify himself. During this period he formed a close relationship with Anselme Selosse, who encouraged his minimalist philosophy and allowed him to use his cellars in Avize between 1998 and 2003. Those early vintages of Les Béguines quickly established Prévost as one of Champagne’s most compelling new voices.
Today the domaine comprises just 2.2 hectares planted predominantly with massal-selection pinot meunier vines dating from the 1960s, rooted in Thanetian soils of clay, sand and limestone rich with marine fossils. Prévost believes meunier is one of Champagne’s most misunderstood varieties, capable of extraordinary depth and complexity when farmed carefully and harvested fully ripe. Viticulture is meticulous yet understated: light ploughing under vine, natural grass cover, and minimal intervention throughout the growing season. In the cellar, the wines are made with indigenous yeasts and aged for around ten months in a mixture of old and new barrels of varying sizes. The wines are neither filtered nor stabilised, with low dosage and relatively short post-disgorgement ageing preserving their energy and texture. Produced in tiny quantities, Prévost’s Champagnes are intensely vinous, layered and expressive — wines that have helped redefine the possibilities of pinot meunier and cemented his reputation as one of the cult figures of modern Champagne.
First released in 1998, Les Béguines has become one of Champagne’s most emblematic cuvées. Harvest is carried out as late as possible, ensuring optimum ripeness, which is essential to unlock pinot meunier’s full potential. The wine spends a maximum of 18 months 'sur lattes' as Jérôme prefers post-disgorgement ageing – he reckons his champagnes open out fully after around six years in bottle. Generally austere in youth, the 2022 is much more extrovert than usual, a consequence of the hot and dry summer.
Weather: The 2022 vintage brought us record sunshine, with the sunniest July since 1959 and no fewer than five high-temperature peaks between spring and summer. It was a "dry" growing season overall, because, although drought was at the forefront of everyone's minds, we must not forget the replenishing thunderstorms in June, rare but invaluable oceanic influxes that ensured the vines never suffered from a lack of water. And lastly, we had the “final gift" in the form of some mid-August rain that came at just the right time to bring about exceptional ripening!
Technical Information:
Vineyards: Les Béguines | Gueux (Marne) is a village in the Petite Montagne de Reims
Grape Varieties: 94% Pinot Meunier, 6% Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir & Chardonnay
Lees Ageing: 14-17 Months
Base Vintage: Exclusively all 2022
Disgorged: August 2024
Dosage: 2 g/l
Drink: Now to 2030+
Tasting Note: It opens with an evocative bouquet of pear, orange zest and warming spices mingling with notes of buckwheat and toast. On the palate, it is medium- to full-bodied, textural and concentrated, with a pillowy mousse and lively acidity, concluding with precise, chalky finish. As ever, it will richly reward a few years of cellaring, as bottle age brings out additional complexity. - Tasted by Kristaps Karklins
Jérôme Prévost is regarded as one of Champagne’s most revered grower-producers and a leading champion of pinot meunier. Based in the village of Gueux, west of Reims, he began his domaine in 1987 after inheriting a small parcel of old-vine meunier known as Les Béguines from his mother — who famously challenged him to prove he could succeed as a winemaker. For the first decade Prévost sold his fruit to the négociants, lacking both a cellar and the means to vinify himself. During this period he formed a close relationship with Anselme Selosse, who encouraged his minimalist philosophy and allowed him to use his cellars in Avize between 1998 and 2003. Those early vintages of Les Béguines quickly established Prévost as one of Champagne’s most compelling new voices.
Today the domaine comprises just 2.2 hectares planted predominantly with massal-selection pinot meunier vines dating from the 1960s, rooted in Thanetian soils of clay, sand and limestone rich with marine fossils. Prévost believes meunier is one of Champagne’s most misunderstood varieties, capable of extraordinary depth and complexity when farmed carefully and harvested fully ripe. Viticulture is meticulous yet understated: light ploughing under vine, natural grass cover, and minimal intervention throughout the growing season. In the cellar, the wines are made with indigenous yeasts and aged for around ten months in a mixture of old and new barrels of varying sizes. The wines are neither filtered nor stabilised, with low dosage and relatively short post-disgorgement ageing preserving their energy and texture. Produced in tiny quantities, Prévost’s Champagnes are intensely vinous, layered and expressive — wines that have helped redefine the possibilities of pinot meunier and cemented his reputation as one of the cult figures of modern Champagne.
Cellar Master: Jérôme Prévost
Winery Location: Gueux (Marne) west of Reims | Champagne, France
Champagne Region: Montagne de Reims
Annual Production (bottles): 13,000
Expert Reviews
96/100
Kristaps Karklins
“Jérôme Prévost’s NV Les Béguines (LB22) has emerged beautifully despite the arid, sun-drenched 2022 growing season, which generally yielded a lower juice-to-solids ratio. Jérôme Prévost recalls that the vines’ leaves turned yellow and began to drop earlier than usual due to drought stress—a consequence not unexpected, as sandy soils retain significantly less water than chalk. Disgorged in October 2024 without dosage but containing six grams per liter of residual sugar, the wine is exclusively from the 2022 harvest. It opens with an evocative bouquet of pear, orange zest and warming spices mingling with notes of buckwheat and toast. On the palate, it is medium- to full-bodied, textural and concentrated, with a pillowy mousse and lively acidity, concluding with precise, chalky finish. As ever, it will richly reward a few years of cellaring, as bottle age brings out additional complexity.”
