Fledermaus 2023 White Wine hand-picked and made with as

hand-picked and made with as little intervention as the fruit allows

Franconia is not where most people go looking for Pinot Noir

and the flinty mineral line that Anjou schist runs through everything

while still keeping classic Juliénas drinkability

What the schist gives it is energy rather than weight: red cherry

Fledermaus 2023 White Wine hand-picked and made with asFledermaus means bat, and the name is not decoration. Michael Vlker works with local bat expert Christian Sder to keep colonies in the vineyard: bat boxes go up among the vines, their guano goes back into the soil as fertiliser, and a share of every bottle sold goes to the Landesbund fr Vogelschutz. The wine itself is Meunier, grown organically at Kitzingen in Franconia and made the way Michael and Melanie make everything, unfiltered and with no added