François Mikulski Volnay 1er Cru Santenots du Milieu 2024 Dessert Wild ale featuring a blend

Wild ale featuring a blend of Michigan-grown Montmorency and Balaton cherries

but it’s already expressive

A blend of 55% Grenache

The project sources from organically farmed vineyards beyond the partners' own estates and applies the same minimal-intervention principles that define their individual wines

It sits on the upper slope of the combe behind the village at over 300 meters of elevation

François Mikulski Volnay 1er Cru Santenots du Milieu 2024 Dessert Wild ale featuring a blendThe Land Here is one of Burgundy's great quirks: Santenots is a red wine vineyard that physically sits inside the commune of Meursault, but because the ground grows Pinot Noir so well, the wine is allowed to be sold as Volnay 1er Cru. Santenots du Milieu is the ripe heart of the vineyard. Mikulski's parcel is small, under a hectare, on brown silt over fractured bedrock with more clay than you find in the village of Volnay proper. That extra clay is