La Closerie (Jérôme Prévost) Extra Brut Champagne Les Béguines NV

97 points Audrey Frick (JebDunnuck.com): "The NV Champagne La Closerie Les Beguines Extra Brut (2019) is incredible and expressive. Entirely Meunier, it is listed as NV but is exclusively from the 2019 vintage. A layered bouquet of red flowers, currant, marzipan, and meringue is followed by elegant and fine mousse, highlighting its pure fruit of ripe red berries, a silky mineral texture, and delicate salinity. It is hard to resist now, but it will mature gracefully over the next 15-20 years. Drink: 2022-2042. (11/7/22)"

96 points Kristaps Karklins (Wine Advocate): "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. Drink: 2027-2037. (May 2025)"

94 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "This bottle of La Closerie “les Beguines” from Jérôme Prévost is from the base year of 2012. The wine is drinking beautifully today, offering up a deep and complex bouquet of white peach, brioche, a hint of lavender, a superb base of soil tones, just a hint of vanillin oak and a potpourri of gentle meunier floral scents in the upper register. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and complex, with crisp acids, a beautiful core of fruit, impeccable balance, outstanding mousse and a long, soil-driven and complex finish. Just a beautiful bottle of wine that is just hitting its stride and still has decades of life ahead of it. 2021-2050. (Sep/Oct 2021)"