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The 11th Day of Christmas with American Sparkling Wine & Cider: Early Mountain Pet-Nats from Virginia

The 11th Day of Christmas with American Sparkling Wine & Cider: Early Mountain Pet-Nats from Virginia

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Fredric Koeppel
Jan 04, 2020
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If your reaction to the title of this post -- the penultimate of the series -- is "What the hell is a pet-nat?" well, Reader, that's why I'm here. That nickname -- sorta cute, sorta horrid -- stands for pétillant naturel, also known as the methode ancestrale or the rural style. The simple process predates the invention of the famous Champagne method of …

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