Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 Grower Champagne Aurélien Revillot crafts this single-vineyard

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

with vines planted in 1966 and 1986

With hints of citrus

The 2021 vintage unfolds with red cherries

and Chardonnay from Premier Cru plots

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 Grower Champagne Aurélien Revillot crafts this single-vineyardSaint 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