PET NAT – THE HIPPEST DRINK IN THE BAR
With names like Piggy Pop, Cosmonat and Flower Girl and bright psychedelic funky labels, ‘Pet Nats’ might sound and look like frivolous fizzy drinks. They are in fact very interesting deliciously fruity sparkling wines which are currently hugely popular around the world. The name Pet Nat means Petillant Naturel – hence the name given to these spritzy sparklers which are usually found topped with crown caps (aka beer caps) - which are much more effective than corks as closures for sparkling wines. Pet Nats might be the hippest and trendiest drinks in the bar right now, but they are actually one of the oldest fizz predating Champagne. They are the same as Methode Ancestrale or Methode Rural. This age-old process usually involves a wine from one harvest bottled before the alcoholic fermentation has finished. By bottling it early, the