How we made it
Even in a bad year for Bacchus (with sunburn / heat damage massively reducing the yields) we couldn’t resist to produce at least a small batch of this Pet-Nat. A good quarter of the grapes were fermented on the skins for about a week, the rest pressed directly. Bottled a few weeks later in October it took a little longer than usual for this Pet-Nat to get where we wanted it to be so we didn’t disgorge it before August 2020. As always warm and by hand.
Fact sheet
Variety: Bacchus
Soil: shell limestone
Harvest: September 2019
73% direct press, 27% fermented on the skins for about a week
Bottled: October 2019
Disgorged: August 2020
Alcohol: 10.5%
Acid: 7.1 g/l
Total SO2 (nothing added): 14 mg/l
Residual sugar: 0.1 g/l
Pressure: 2.4 bar
Bottle size: 0.75 l