Gosh my heart leaps when FedEx pulls in the driveway!
Just received a New Years gift bottle of the wine in my title. I am totally unfamiliar with it, which is what the gifter intended.
Jerome Prevost, bottle number 01382/3300.
Has anyone had this? Any thoughts? Looks exciting…
I tried the 14 for the first time about a month ago and was blown away. Fabulous stuff. Outside my regular $ range for bubbly or I’d stock up. Slightly oxidative and yeasty goodness.
Nice gift!
Thanks, Dennis. Not to be gauche, but what is the approximate cost of a bottle? Probably outside my range, too…
~$200 
Yikes! I have never paid that for a bottle of Champagne. This is not a bottle to be opened alone while cooking dinner here! I am just a beginner with Champagne, in terms of knowledge. I have had a fair amount, but have not studied it. It is an outlet for me as I work on my own Cabernet. Thanks, Dennis.
Anyone else with experience with this wine?
If I may ask, is there a vintage on this?
I have had wines from Prevost, but I doubt it was this one. I own a couple of bottles of Prevost 2013 La Closerie Extra Brut Les Beguines made from Pinot Meunier that cost me around $100 a couple of years ago.
Prevost makes really good Champagne. La Closerie — La Fête du Champagne
Matty (Happy New Year, by the way), you know you can always ask me anything. If I know, I will tell you.
I just grabbed the bottle and no, no sign of vintage. Very loose foil - probably more hand-applied than by machine, is my guess. At fewer than 300 cases produced, that would be my guess. But I know nothing about Champagne production.
I feel like a kid on Christmas morning!
This is the rose’
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/jerome+prevost+la+closerie+simile+extra+brut+rose+champagne+france/1/usa
So is it NV or not?
No sign of vintage, so I would assume not. Not a lot of info on the wine-searcher link.
It is legally NV but I think if you look carefully you will find a lot number which tells you what base it is. It should be at the bottom of the back label and says e.g. LC12, which designates it as a 2012 base.
Please do not buy anymore Prevost Champagne, it is hard enough to find it as it is. Move along, nothing to see here.
Yep, LC14. This is why I ask questions around here: someone always knows something!
I did not BUY it - it was a gift!
Killer gift, love this Champagne, haven’t tried recent vintages but have had it in the past. Very unique and singular, that’s a fun treat…