The term is cropping up more and more often in the wine scene, but it is still unknown even to some experienced wine lovers. Pronounced "pet nah" and short for the French term "pétillant naturel", it ...

But there’s definitely a lot to learn about natural sparkling wine. It’s not just meaningless marketing speak. Natural sparkling wine (also known as Pet Nat) definitely earned the right to ...

Pét-Nat or Pétillant-Naturel. What the heck is that “next big thing” in wine? The “next big thing” designation is ironic ...

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 ...

Funky bubbles, such as pet nat and piquette ... chenin blanc they don’t sell, making only a few cases to drink and share.” The couple explained the wine as an “ode to tradition ...

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 ...

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 ...

PÉT-NAT MUST BE one of the cutest monikers in the wine world today. The whimsical nickname for pétillant-naturel, a slightly sparkling natural wine, also happens to capture its character best.

And, while the science behind winemaking is enough to make your ... intervention process allows the grapes and terroir as well as the ambient yeast and bacteria to influence the wine throughout ...