Pet Nat - Shiraz - Adelaide Hills Wine Region - Fleurieu Peninsula - by South Australian artist Avril Thomas T-Shirt

Today we bottled our Shiraz. This is called a Pet Nat. a Pétillant-naturel, or a pét-nat to those in the know. Well, it refers to wines produced in the méthode ancestrale, an ancient and natural way of making sparkling wines, predating the méthode champenoise that we are more familiar with. All sorts of old world traditions are employed to create these simpler, more rustic sparkling’s, but essentially these wines are bottled before primary fermentation and are finished without the addition of secondary yeasts or sugars. Pét-nats are often cloudy, unfiltered and capped with a crown seal (for safety!!). The end product is also exciting and unpredictable, opening each bottle is a surprise, suggestive of the time and location where it was ...