Pinot Noir 2023 Languedoc Michael Völker and Melanie Drese

Michael Völker and Melanie Drese treat the vineyard at Kitzingen as habitat as much as farmland

a fine dusty grip

which is the whole trick of it

and the wine keeps everything that makes this corner of Spain worth drinking

This is the old-vine bottling

Pinot Noir 2023 Languedoc Michael Völker and Melanie DresePinot Noir is the quieter half of the red plantings at Domaine de la Renardire, sitting alongside Poulsard and Trousseau. Jean Michel and Laurence Petit farm seven and a half hectares in Arbois Pupillin, organic since 2010 and certified from 2012, with every parcel fermented apart on its own yeasts and sulphur kept to a minimum or left out altogether. The Jura gives Pinot a particular shape: leaner than Burgundy, more red fruited than dark, with an