This newish (and incredibly rare) bottling from Prévost debuted with the 2019 vintage. Since the 2021 vintage, this bottling has included fruit from Agnès and Jérôme’s two tiny plots of Grand Cru Le Mesnil, totalling 0.28 hectares. Purchased in spring 2021, the mass-selection vines in these vineyards were planted in the 1960s on hard Lutetian limestone (the stone used for the cathedrals of Reims and Paris). The rest of the blend is, again, Chardonnay from Le Mesnil (Côte des Blancs) and Pinot Noir from Puisieulx at the northern end of the Montagne de Reims, just north of Rilly-la-Montagne and Verzenay. The latter sites are farmed by a couple whom Jérôme refers to as “lovely, young and talented growers,” with a viticulture charter that emphasises cultivated soils, low yields and full ripeness (with the harvest date determined in consultation with Prévost). The result is a mind-blowing Champagne. The 2023 really benefits from a decant but also opens quickly in the glass (especially in a Burgundy glass which is my preference for this wine). There’s lots of spicy, classy reduction whilst the palate is rich and opulent, with layer upon layer of creamy, stone fruited, nutty goodness and a long minerally close. As individual and seductive as Champagne gets. Yes!