Pet Nat Wine. A pet nat (short for the french 'pétillant naturel' meaning ’natural sparkling') is a wine made according to the ancestral method. An ancient natural wine making technique.
In 2020, we’re drinking piquette. Dear jordan, natural wines seem to be all the rage among a certain, ahem, hip segment of the market these days, and pétillant naturel wines are the bubbly equivalent (it literally translates to natural sparkling). Made from 100% heritage merlot fruit using the méthode ancestrale technique, the wine is fresh with a lively finish, helped along by its signature natural fizz.
A pet nat (short for the french 'pétillant naturel' meaning ’natural sparkling') is a wine made according to the ancestral method.
William kelley, decanter contributor, responds: One of the features of pet nat is that it requires no additions of sulphur dioxide due to the fact that as the wine is constantly fermenting up to and including the point at… read more → Fresh yeast, and sugar syrup sufficient to feed it, is added, and the resulting second fermentation produces carbon dioxide—bringing each bottle to an internal pressure of around 6 atmospheres—and an additional percentage. Pét nat comes in white, rosé and red, which means it will appeal to all wine lovers.