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Bottle of La Rogerie Champagne Grand Cru Le Bourg Sud NV ['22 Base]-White Wine-Flatiron SF

La Rogerie Champagne Grand Cru Le Bourg Sud NV ['22 Base]

White Wine from Champagne, France
by La Rogerie
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What is this wine?
La Rogerie is a small, family-run Champagne house founded by Hugo and Ludivine Legrand in Avize, in the Côte des Blancs. Farming is organic and focused on old-vine Chardonnay from Grand Cru sites. Le Bourg Sud is a Blanc de Blancs from a single parcel in Avize, a Grand Cru terroir famed for pure chalk soils and mineral-driven wines. Based on the 2022 harvest, with reserve wines added, it is vinified and aged with minimal intervention to highlight terroir expression.

Why get this wine?
La Rogerie is one of Champagne’s exciting new grower-producers, quickly gaining cult attention for their precision and small-scale craftsmanship. Le Bourg Sud offers the tension, elegance, and saline drive of Avize Chardonnay at a level of detail rarely found outside of the Côte des Blancs’ top growers. For Champagne enthusiasts, this is both rare and collectible.

What does this wine taste like?
Lemon zest, green apple, and white peach layered with chalky minerality, white flowers, and subtle brioche. Focused and linear, with fine mousse and a long, saline finish.

When should you drink this wine?
Beautiful now for its freshness, but will age 5–8 years for more complexity. Perfect with oysters, sashimi, or creamy cheeses. Serve well chilled in a white wine glass.

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Husband and wife team Justine Boxler (of Albert Boxler fame) and François Petit have married centuries of winemaking traditions to produce outstanding wines in a very short time. It didn't take very long to piece together what makes them so appealing – and why.

Their wines portray a riveting sense of place, like drinking through a magnifying glass into the historical heart of the Côte de Blancs. The vineyards (1.5 hectares) are in the Grand Cru village of Avize, home to masters Jacques Selosse and Agrapart. Vines are in the southeast Le Haut Moulin and northeast Chemin de Chalons, a vineyard straddling Avize and Cramant (Selosse bottles one of his six lieux-dits from the Cramant side).

Avize itself is known for power, structure and roundness, with a yellow-orange citrus tone and a graphite layer of minerality. But in the eastern vineyards, which run along the bottom edge of the coeur de terroir, chunks of chalk poke through the meager topsoil, giving even more cut and chalkiness to the wines.

François's grandparents planted in the 50's with selection massale cuttings, selling fruit to the houses, and only bottling wine for themselves. When Francois and Justine took over in 2015, the first thing to change was the farming. Biodiversity takes precedence, chemicals inputs have been eliminated, homemade compost and cover crops taking their place.

Perfect grapes are all well and good, but can be destroyed without a deft hand in the cellar. They employ traditional methods including vin clair in used oak barrels, extensive time on the lees, and even a solera reserve for the non-vintage wines. Upon release these already show the depth, elegance and finesse of artisan.

Professional Reviews

Robert Parker

RP 95
"Born from the division of La Rogerie’s Lieux de Vie, the new NV Blanc de Blancs Bourg/Sud derives from sites located in the southern part of the estate. Its inaugural edition is composed of fruit from five lieux-dits, with 95% from Avize and 5% from Oger (just bordering Avize). Predominantly based on the 2021 vintage (matured for eleven months in barrels) and complemented by 10% reserve wines from 2018 to 2020, it was disgorged in January 2024 with two grams per liter dosage. Reflecting the character of the dominant vintage, it’s a wine with an incisive profile, unfurling from the glass with scents of oyster shell, citrus fruit, bread dough and honeysuckle. More nakedly chalky compared to the Champ Bouton, though still with some flesh on the bones, it is laden with bright acidity and concludes with a persistent, sapid finish. François Petit explained that the reason of replacing Lieux de Vie with Bourg/Sud and Bourg/Nord (vineyards north of Avize) is to produce more precise cuvées based on location, a decision that's hard to dispute after tasting this impressive first release." -Kristaps Karklins

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chardonnay

  • Vintage

    NV

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Sustainable

  • Style

    Aromatic , Fruity

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied