Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 070226CHILL toasted pecan and burned sugar

toasted pecan and burned sugar

Fermentation is spontaneous

floral notes and delicate marzipan

and rich oak

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 070226CHILL toasted pecan and burned sugarSaint Joseph sprawls: some fifty kilometers of riverbank, and plenty of it flat and forgettable. The good stuff comes off granite, and Stephane Ogier goes and gets it. "Le Passage" is Syrah from steep granite slopes around Malleval, Limony and Saint Pierre de Boeuf, hand harvested, fermented with native yeasts, then aged twelve months in barrel, just ten percent of it new, so the wood never announces itself. Ogier is a Cote Rotie man by trade, and it