The Third Day of Christmas with American Sparkling Wine & Cider: Two Pet-Nats from California
"Pét-Nat" is the almost too cute contemporary nickname for Pétillant-Naturel, a method of producing sparkling wine that pre-dates the discovery of the Champagne method by a century, probably in the 1630s. Also called the méthode ancestrale, the process couldn't be simpler. Bottle a wine before fermentation is complete, closing it with a crown cap, and t…
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