Les Devants 2020 Magnums Michael Völker and Melanie Drese

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

and everything goes into bottle unfined and unfiltered

and it shows the deeper

Müller-Thurgau and Scheurebe

Grapes are destemmed by hand

Les Devants 2020 Magnums Michael Völker and Melanie DreseLes Devants is the flagship red at Domaine de la Sarazinire, and a cuve with real history behind it. The vines on this south facing lieu dit at Bussires were planted between the 1930s and the 1950s by Claude Seigneuret, who founded the estate, and they remain the source of its most structured red. On deep alkaline clay limestone, these seventy to ninety year old Gamay vines give small yields of concentrated fruit. Philippe and Guillaume ferment