Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 Grower Champagne fermented and smoked rhubarb

fermented and smoked rhubarb

The 2021 vintage unfolds with red cherries

Expect meaty

but with Noble hop varieties that are more delicate than their American counterparts

and Chardonnay from Premier Cru plots

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 Grower Champagne fermented and smoked rhubarbSaint 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