Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPCALIFORNIA drinking in its prime

drinking in its prime

back when nearly every other American brewery was pointed squarely at hops

Try it with soda water and lemon

it is rich and layered

beautiful bright tones

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPCALIFORNIA drinking in its primeSaint 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