La Closerie Les Beguines

In the glass

Aroma: brioche straight from the oven, spice, ripe orchard fruit, smoke

Palate: burnished gold richness, vinous depth, masterly oak, exotic Meunier

Jerome Prevost's cult single-vineyard Pinot Meunier from Gueux: brioche straight from the oven with spice and ripe orchard fruit, burnished and vinous with masterly oak, the most exotic Meunier in Champagne.

What it pairs with

• Roast chicken Find roast chicken on TableJourney →
  Vinous brioche richness meets roasted poultry.
• Mushroom tart
  Smoke and orchard fruit echo earthy mushrooms.
• Charcuterie Find charcuterie on TableJourney →
  Spice and depth frame cured meats.

History

Les Beguines is Jerome Prevost's cult cuvee built almost entirely on old-vine Pinot Meunier from a single parcel near Gueux; though labelled non-vintage, it is always the wine of a single year.

1. 1998 — Prevost begins bottling Les Beguines from the single Gueux parcel

Facts

Producer

Champagne La Closerie (Jerome Prevost)

Grapes

Pinot Meunier (100%)

Classification

AOC Champagne

Oak

Old-oak fermentation; single-vineyard old-vine Pinot Meunier; no dosage

ABV

12.5%

Price

EUR 90 to 150 at retail

Drinking window

now to 10 from release

First vintage

1998

Scores

• Decanter 93

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