Golden Hour 2024 Domaine du Moulin des Saints 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

allowing texture and balance to emerge naturally over time

and a finish that stays savoury rather than turning sweet

and in Sébastien Bobinet and Émeline Calvez's hands it becomes something wonderfully fresh

Golden Hour 2024 Domaine du Moulin des Saints Michael Völker and Melanie DreseGolden Hour is Soma Vines in a gentler register, with a shorter time on skins giving colour and texture without letting the grip take charge. Daisy Merrick and Antoine Lucchesi farm four hectares around Eckelsheim in Rheinhessen and buy in from organic and biodynamic growers besides. Native yeasts throughout, nothing fined, nothing filtered, no sulphur added. Stone fruit and citrus peel with a floral top note, and just enough tannin to give the wine