Pétillant Naturel Pétillant Naturel, otherwise known by its pet name Pét-Nat, is the garage band of sparkling wines.
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Wines of The Times Don't call pétillant naturel the new bubbly in town.
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William Chris makes an enticing collection of graceful, floral wines and appealing pétillant naturels.
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A less expensive choice would be pétillant naturel, a very old form of sparkling wine.
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Look for those labeled pétillant naturel, an ancient method that is a sparkling equivalent of cider.
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They just want you to be a snob and use more expensive prosecco, or, sorry, pétillant natural.
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The Loire Valley, a center for natural wine, was also home to many early pétillant naturel revivalists.
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A mild sparkling wine would be delicious, like good cava from Spain, pétillant naturel or even Prosecco.
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This beautiful pink pétillant naturel is made from gamay grapes, bottled before the initial fermentation was completed.
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Soft bubbles from pétillant-naturel wines work magic on chili and creamy fats like coconut broths and fragrant curries.
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Some were simply straightforward easy drinking, but others were nuanced and complex, a description rarely associated with pétillant naturel.
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"I didn't realize I had such a preconceived notion of pétillant naturel as an easy sparkling wine," she said.
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Pétillant naturel, a sparkling wine made the old-fashioned way, would be perfectly in keeping with an informal picnic.
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Or you could try a pétillant naturel, especially a bottle with a bit of residual sugar, which would be delicious.
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Pétillant naturel can sometimes be a bit sweet if the fermentation ends before all the sugar in the wine is consumed.
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My only regret was not ending the evening with another glass of rosé from the excellent selection of pétillant naturel wines.
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Other types of sparkling wines that show some sweetness, like Bugeys from the Savoie in France and pétillant naturels, can be great.
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There's no need to dilute very good Champagne over ice, but I often opt for a pétillant naturel (often shortened to pét-nat).
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A simple sparkling wine in the pétillant-naturel category would be excellent, particularly if it has a touch of sweetness as some do.
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As with any pétillant naturel, or Champagne-style sparkler, after the yeasts are finished with their fermenting duties, they die, leaving sediment in the bottle.
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This is the essence of pétillant naturel, though it is now done with intention, often with the help of modern refrigeration equipment, and without shattered glass.
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And you can find an excellent range of eastern European natural wines, like Strekov 1075 of Slovakia, which makes Rozália, a superb, refreshing rosé pétillant naturel.
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Or House Music, a fascinating and delicious pétillant naturel, or lightly sparkling wine, made from a field blend of hybrid grapes by La Garagista in central Vermont.
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Noting the widening availability of pétillant naturel, the wine panel recently tasted through 20 bottles from seven countries, just a cross-section of what is available in retail markets.
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Nonetheless, the influence and importance of natural wines have grown as some of its favored genres, like pétillant naturel, have become, if not exactly mainstream, at least not uncommon.
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And the sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier has recently teamed with Nathan Kendall, of N. Kendall, to make Chëpìka, an intriguing pétillant naturel made of the native grapes Catawba and Delaware.
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And sometimes it's a sparkling wine that has nothing to do with Champagne, like pétillant naturel, made using the oldest method of producing sparkling wine, with any grapes you like.
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While he loves wine of acidity, that feel alive, he is not a fan of genres that are popular among natural wine producers, like pétillant naturel, or of rigid attitudes.
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Dubbed Morphos, it's made in the on-trend pétillant-naturel style, or pét-nat for short, where wine is bottled before fermentation is complete, creating a natural fizz from the carbon dioxide released as the wine finishes fermenting in bottle.
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Most Lambrusco is made using industrial methods, but this one is made like a pétillant naturel, the oldest method of sparkling wine production: Midway through fermentation, the juice is bottled, and as the fermentation finishes in the sealed container, the resulting carbon dioxide carbonates the wine.
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Pyren Vineyard still produces those more traditional styles, but their most popular wines by far in recent years have been under the label Little Ra Ra, an experimental project that includes orange wines, pétillant naturel sparklings and an unfiltered light red made from shiraz, cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc.
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The modern renaissance of pétillant naturel traces back to the early days of natural wines, a genre of minimalist grape-growing and winemaking that over the last 15 years has grown from a small, scattered collection of producers to a niche that has become increasingly popular and influential, though endlessly contentious.
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Sparkling wines are made according to the traditional method and can either be pétillant (semi-sparkling) or mousseux (fully sparkling).
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Domaine Huet produces wines in a range of styles, including pétillant, sec, demi-sec, and moelleux. Domaine Huet is considered the most celebrated wine producer from the Loire Valley, and is the only to have headlined a Christie's auction.
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Semi- sparkling wines are defined as those with between 1 and 2.5 atmospheres of pressures and include German spritzig, Italian frizzante and French pétillant wines. The amount of pressure in the wine is determined by the amount of sugar added during the tirage stage at the beginning of the secondary fermentation with more sugar producing an increased amount of carbon dioxide gas and thus pressure in the wine.
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For the villa has a façade > of granite and white stucco, with many urns and statues. But what is unique > in this wine is that it is the colour of orangeade, and slightly pétillant. > Let no one despise it for its colour! Mateus is delicious beyond words; and > since I am told that it will travel and is exported to Brazil, it is a pity > that one cannot buy it here in England.
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According to one vineyard that operates a private museum in Le Diois France, the process was found accidentally by a Gallic shepherd. The shepherd was using the cool waters of La Drôme river to chill a bottle of local wine. The bottle was forgotten and left in the cold water over the Winter. Upon finding it in the Spring it was found to be carbonated or in French pétillant, a word that roughly translates into the common English word sparkling.
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While rarely used, Mondeuse noire is also permitted in the sparkling Vin de Savoie Mousseux or semi-sparkling Vin de Savoie Pétillant wines of the region. Like Pinot noir, which is a red wine grape used in Champagne, Mondeuse noire destined for sparkling wine production would be pressed soon after harvest in order to avoid having the white grape juice tinted by the color phenolics in the skins that are usually leached out by the maceration process.T. Stevenson, ed. The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia (4th Edition) pp.
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