Stephane Ogier Cotes du Rhone Rouge Le Temps Est Venu 2023 ROSSCELLAR karwinskii)

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The nose is strikingly pure

refill hogsheads

Fine and persistent perlage

spontaneous fermentation

Stephane Ogier Cotes du Rhone Rouge Le Temps Est Venu 2023 ROSSCELLAR karwinskii)Le Temps est Venu means "the time has come," and for Stephane Ogier it meant heading south. He built his reputation on the vertiginous slopes of Cote Rotie, then went looking for old vines in the southern Rhone, landing on Grenache and Syrah from Plan de Dieu and Visan, planted on clay limestone, with decades of age behind them. The fruit is hand harvested and sorted with the same fuss he applies to his top bottlings, which is emphatically not how