Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 Grower Champagne Expect meaty

Expect meaty

soars on the wings of angelica root

Aurélien Revillot crafts this single-vineyard Cabernet Franc from five parcels spanning mid-slope chalky soils and sandy lower parcels across Bourgueil's west-to-east expanse

and Chardonnay from Premier Cru plots

fermented and smoked rhubarb

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 Grower Champagne Expect meatySaint 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