Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPCALIFORNIA The flagship bourbon from FEW

The flagship bourbon from FEW Spirits in Evanston

Definitely one of the most "fun" wines in the store

From the producer: Light salmon hue with red-golden reflections

with back notes of orange

Maestra mezcalera Margarita Blas and her son used only older examples of the tall Agave karwinskii subspecies known as Cirial to make this unique batch

Stephane Ogier Saint Joseph Le Passage 2022 SPCALIFORNIA The flagship bourbon from FEWSaint 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