Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 Grower Champagne Although Prosecco is often seen

Although Prosecco is often seen as a simple sparkler

With hints of citrus

Expect meaty

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

soars on the wings of angelica root

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 Grower Champagne Although Prosecco is often seenSaint 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