Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 070226CHILL and substantial concentration

and substantial concentration

From the importer:

Crisp on the palate with tropical fruits

Crisp red strawberry

floral notes and delicate marzipan

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 070226CHILL and substantial concentrationSaint 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