Le Bourg Nord

La Rogerie is the project of François Petit and Justine Boxler — a partnership that brings together two of French wine's most distinguished lineages. François comes from a longtime Champagne family in Avize and worked with Anselme Selosse, the most influential grower in the region's modern history. Justine comes from Domaine Albert Boxler in Alsace, one of the great names in French white wine. Together they farm fewer than three hectares of old-vine Chardonnay in Avize, producing wines in quantities so small they have become increasingly difficult to find — not by design, but simply because there isn't much to go around.

Avize sits in the heart of the Côte des Blancs, between Cramant to the north and Oger to the south, and La Rogerie's range is an exercise in mapping the village at increasingly close range — exploring how slope position, topsoil depth, and proximity to the chalk change the wine from one parcel to the next. Le Bourg Nord is the broadest expression in that range: a wine drawn from multiple parcels on the northern side of Avize, toward Cramant, assembled across vintages through a perpetual reserve. Where the single-parcel cuvées offer precision and specificity, Bourg Nord offers synthesis — a portrait of northern Avize as a whole, the chalk and linearity of this cooler, more northerly exposure expressed across time rather than frozen in a single harvest. The result is a Champagne of remarkable complexity and coherence: 100% old-vine Chardonnay, with fine persistent mousse, mineral precision, and the kind of layered depth that only a thoughtfully built perpetual reserve can produce.