Jerome Prevost Champagne Extra Brut La Closerie Les Beguines ['23 Base] NV NO20230705 Equal parts Mencía and Caíño

Equal parts Mencía and Caíño Tinto from Salnés Valley

This is not a budget shortcut

and 14 months in French barriques develops a wine of striking elegance: crushed granite minerality with blackberry

Expect honeydew melon

Jerome Prevost Champagne Extra Brut La Closerie Les Beguines ['23 Base] NV NO20230705 Equal parts Mencía and CaíñoJerome Prevost is the maestro who put Pinot Meunier on the map as a serious, terroir driven grape, and Les Beguines is his signature wine, named for the single parcel in Gueux from which it comes. Bottled extra brut to let the fruit and soil speak without distraction, it's 100% Meunier of remarkable depth, texture and personality, the antithesis of slick industrial Champagne. Beloved by the wine cognoscenti and genuinely hard to find, it rewards