After catching up with the pair at La Dive last week - in great spirits, positive energies, and pouring a dizzying array of delicious wines - we are excited to start this week with new wines from Melanie & Michael Voelker at 2Naturkinder!
Firstly, we welcome the return of their house white blend - Vater & Sohn - at a very nice new price - available in great volumes for those of you who need something delicious to pour by the glass. A pretty, pithy assemblage built around a vibrant core of their most vigorous Muller Thurgau parcels, this year fleshed out with macerated Pinot Gris, Sylvaner for complexity and a bright lick of Riesling.
Alongside the very last of the juicy '22 Black Betty arriving with this tranche, we have two more very special, limited releases from their Kitzingen batcave:
2024 Bat Nat is their hand-disgorged pet-nat of Pinot Meunier, pressed slowly but directly from the Fledermaus parcel very close to town - one with a remarkably biodiverse habitat and the first home of their bat boxes over 10 years ago. Showing beautiful, high-energy fruit before unfolding into a very pure, mineral finish, it's a really delicious vintage.
The second edition of their Brutal!!! cuvée* comes this year from the steep slope of the vineyard picked for Weinschwarmer. In 2023, they decided to pick a separate section where the Pinot Gris begins to struggle on the steepest rows with the poorest soils. The bunches here are smaller, and the yields lower, and fruit was pressed directly to a single 600L barrel and aged for two years before bottling in the summer of 2025. The wine is dynamic, layered and driving, a unique and textural expression of their Pinot Gris, one we're lucky to share with you.
Melanie & Michael's relationship with La Sorga’s Antony Tortul goes back 10 years, and they are very proud that he asked them (also the first in Germany) to join the limited list of domaines invited to use the new gold Brutal!!! labels, a way of refocusing the project as originally intended - a celebration of true zero-additions winemakers.
2NATURKINDER - MELANIE & MICHAEL VOELKER GERMANY, FRANCONIA, KITZINGEN
SPARKLING
NEW 2024 - Bat Nat
WHITE
NEW 2023 - Brutal!! - Pinot Gris
NEW NV - Vater & Sohn 6 - Muller Thurgau, Silvaner, Riesling, Pinot Gris
RED
2022 - Black Betty - Domina, Regent, Pinot Noir
