Cali Coast Wine Country
If you love Champagne, you know there are many different kinds of sparkling wine. A Pétillant Naturel is a sparkling wine made in the Méthode Ancestrale, as opposed to the Méthode Champenoise. Pét-Nats are fun and popular, because they are easier and cheaper to make than traditional sparkling wines made in the Champagne method. Winemakers …
Winemaker Mike Sinor is the SLO Coast Champagne Renegade. Instead of beginning with traditional-method sparklers, he started using traditional and new/interesting varieties, plus the older, pared-down and simple, méthode ancestral instead. (He has also created Champagne-style bubbles…read below!) Each year at Sinor-Lavallee, you can find something different and fun as Sinor experiments with all-natural frizzante …
Solminer Winery Makes Several Sparkling Pét-Nats, or Méthode Ancestrale Anna and David deLaski met in 2009 and fell in love with Santa Barbara wine country and each other. In 2012, they finally got their shot at farming and producing California wine, including some O.G. Bubbles. Let’s let them explain: “Pétillant Naturel, or Pét-Nat, for short, …
