Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPBURGUNDY well south of Napa

well south of Napa

It drinks beautifully now and has plenty of road ahead

lime & orange zests echo the curandera (healer) traditions that use many of these same ingredients to cleanse negative energy

Refreshing on its own and doubly refreshing in a spritz

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPBURGUNDY well south of NapaSaint 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