Jérôme Prévost is one of Champagne’s most influential grower-producers, known for redefining the potential of pinot meunier and ushering in a new era of site-specific, vintage-driven wines. Based in the village of Gueux in the Petite Montagne de Reims, Prévost founded his estate, La Closerie, in 1998 after inheriting the two-hectare vineyard Les Béguines from his grandmother. The vines, planted in the 1950s to massale selection meunier, sit on a rare band of sandy, fossil-rich topsoil over chalk—a terroir long prized but largely overlooked in modern Champagne.
Guided early on by Anselme Selosse, Prévost has always worked outside convention. His wines are fermented with native yeasts in used barrique and demi-muid, bottled with no dosage, and aged for just 16 months under cork, short by Champagne standards, but intentional. Prévost believes the most compelling evolution happens in bottle. Farming is organic, yields are exceptionally low, and the approach in both vineyard and cellar is built on transparency, precision, and trust in the raw material. The result is Champagne that is tactile, exacting, and unmistakably of his hand.



