Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPBURGUNDY lightly macerated on the skins

lightly macerated on the skins

Located in Burgundy's Côte de Beaune

It drinks beautifully now and has plenty of road ahead

Fruity and crisp with herbal and toasty notes

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPBURGUNDY lightly macerated on the skinsSaint 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