Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 060526OFFER very dry sake with pronounced

very dry sake with pronounced acidity & sweet-fruit tones

perfumed character with structural sophistication

Sicilian grower in Syracuse

The only additions are sugar

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 060526OFFER very dry sake with pronouncedSaint 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