Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPBURGUNDY pressed to stainless steel tank

pressed to stainless steel tank

goes through malolactic

Fresh quince and plum fruit initally on the nose

lightly macerated on the skins

It had a certain fleshiness that was the perfect foil to the freshness of the Rose of Peru

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPBURGUNDY pressed to stainless steel tankSaint 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