Cinsault 2020 Domaine Bariou Bodet Michael Völker and Melanie Drese

Michael Völker and Melanie Drese farm at Kitzingen in Franconia with the vineyard treated as habitat first: bat boxes among the rows

Jean-Michel and Laurence Petit make theirs at Domaine de la Renardière in Pupillin

soft florals and a silky

grown organically at Kitzingen in Franconia and made the way Michael and Melanie make everything

all the fragrance of Muscat with none of the alcohol

Cinsault 2020 Domaine Bariou Bodet Michael Völker and Melanie DreseCharlotte and Aurlien Houillon farm nine hectares in a single block at Faucon, in the Vaucluse, where the vines share their ground with woodland and moorland. Aurlien is Emmanuel Houillon's brother, and like him learned the trade with Pierre Overnoy at Pupillin, which tells you most of what you need to know about the approach here: nothing added, no cultured yeast, no fining, no filtration and no sulphur. Horses work the rows, and even the labels are