What Is Pét-Nat Wine? An Ancient Winemaking Style on the Rise

These simple, rustic sparklers are winning fans with their versality and funk.
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Naturally sparkling wines have been made for centuries, and now one of the oldest methods of producing them has made a resurgence.

Pétillant-naturel (natural sparkling) is a catch-all term for practically any sparkling wine made in the méthode ancestrale, meaning the wine is bottled before primary fermentation is finished, without the addition of secondary yeasts or sugars. (This is in contrast to méthode champenoise, the method used to make Champagne and other more-common sparkling wines, in which a finished wine undergoes a secondary fermentation in the bottle with additional yeasts and sugars).