What is a Pet-Nat?

A Pet-nat is the street name for the french term referring to a certain style of sparkling wine: Petillant naturel. Pet-nats are part of the methode ancestrale sparkling wine technique (whereas Champagne is made in the Methode traditionnelle). It all comes down to how the second fermentation is handled, or not, when the rest of the sugars are converted to CO2 and the wine becomes sparkling. For pet-nats, they are sparkling but not too aggressively. The wine goes through the first fermentation and then gets bottled before it’s complete, so it kind of goes through 1.5 fermentations. Pet-nats are FUN! Unfiltered & can be explosively awesome!