The yeasts and grape sugars that remain will continue to ferment in-bottle, creating more alcohol, along with carbon dioxide, which disperses through the wine to make it fizzy. In general ...

On the other hand, some are as clean and precise as can be. Though this approach to making fizzy wine originated in southwestern France in the 1500s, pét-nats can be made from any grape variety ...

Pet Nat is on trend right now – but it’s not a new drink. In fact, it could be described as the original sparkling wine as the process to make it dates back thousands of years. To give it its ...

The traditional process is ... The 2018 Bubbly Pet Nat is a blend of pinot noir and chardonnay grapes from the Saunders vineyard in Beamsville. It’s a dry sparkling wine with richness ...

This year's harvest in New York City’s local wine region, the Hamptons, started 10 days later than usual for Channing Daughters' pét-nats, aka pétillant-naturels, the current bubbly wine craze.

was probably closer to “Crap, bubbles again” when, with warm weather in the spring, fermentation spontaneously re-combusted in the still wine he was trying to make. What is known is that in ...

Not long ago there were no filters, enzymes, or high-tech tools to remove and/or inhibit the dead or dormant yeast cells that make fermentation happen. When the fermenting wine seemed like it was ...

Pét-nat, short for pétillant naturel, aka méthode ancestrale, or rural method, is the oldest recipe for making bubbly wine, and "one of the most exciting things to have come out of the natural ...

And its history goes back much further than that. The very way it's made is known as the ancestral method, a wine making method practiced for centuries. But as trends flow inward from the coasts ...