If you’re a wine connoisseur (or even if you’re not), you may have come across “Pet Nat” wine and wondered what it is. Well, Petillant Naturel wine is a naturally sparkling wine made through the traditional méthode ancestrale, where fermentation occurs in the bottle without added yeast or sugar.
What is Pet Nat?
Pet nat wine, or pétillant-naturel to give it its full title, refers to an ancient way of producing sparkling wine. To get technical, pétillant-nature refers to wines produced in the méthode ancestrale, which predates the methode champenoise. These wines are bottled before the primary fermentation and finished without secondary yeasts or sugars.
The Process
At Rosnay Organic, we have perfected our pet nat winemaking process to deliver a vibrant, fruity, spritzy beverage for any occasion.
We start with 100% homegrown organic grapes, picked and gently pressed. Once the spontaneous (“wild yeast”) fermentation is kicked off, the wine is chilled to ensure a slow ferment and bottling before all the sugars are fermented. From here, the wine continues to ferment in the bottle and is left “on lees” for another 3 months. Next, we “riddle” the wine to get the lees to settle at the top of the bottle. We wait 3 months before disgorging the wine and labelling it.
Visit our Cellar Door
You can purchase directly from our website or Cellar Door, or you can sample our organic pet nat wine at one of our wine-tasting events. These events, held in our picturesque vineyard, offer a unique opportunity to learn about our winemaking process and taste a variety of our organic wines.