Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 060526OFFER The only additions are sugar

The only additions are sugar

The Cimarron blanco offers a dry and bright impression of fresh agave

finesse and structure in the same glass

spicy virgin charred oak

black pepper and a light mineral finish

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 060526OFFER The only additions are sugarSaint 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