FINGER LAKES PÉT-NAT
Pet-Nat is short for petillant naturel, a method of producing sparkling wine by bottling the wine during the the primary, alcoholic fermentation to capture the carbon dioxide that is naturally released. This differs from wines like Champagne that undergo a second, bubble-producing fermentation when sugar is added back to the already fermented wine to start a secondary fermentation where co2 is trapped in bottle.. Pet-nats are made using only the natural sugars of the grapes and native yeasts, and is bottled before primary fermentation is complete, making them a pure reflection of their regions and varieties with a well integrated sparkle..
