Fledermaus 2023 Sweet & Fortified while a veil of yeast

while a veil of yeast forms across the surface and slowly rebuilds the wine underneath it

then twenty-five months resting on full lees before bottling with no fining and no filtration

it is precisely the kind of natural Bordeaux that makes you rethink what the region is capable of

fermented on its own yeasts and raised in large vessels

Fledermaus 2023 Sweet & Fortified while a veil of yeastFledermaus 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