PET NAT

Name: PET NAT
Brand: Péter Nagyváradi
SKU: SW-HU-NAGY-PETN-NV
Price: 25.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Hungary , Balaton

Pale straw with a fine, lively mousse. Green apple, citrus peel, white flowers, a touch of brioche from the lees. Crisp. Nearly dry. Bright.

Wine Type: Sparkling, White

Size: 750ml

Grapes: Furmint, Chardonnay

Drinking Window: Drink now – 2027

Vintage: NV

Alcohol: 13%

Food Pairings: Aperitif · Fried snacks · Oysters · Fresh goat cheese

Nutrients: Per 100ml: Energy 328 kJ / 79 kcal, Carbohydrates 1.8g, of which sugars 0.6g. Contains small amounts of fat, saturated fat, protein and salt. Contains sulphites.

€25 €33,33/L

Péter Nagyváradi's only sparkling wine is the one without a vintage on the label. Furmint and Chardonnay, the two white grapes he knows best on Lake Balaton's northern shore, go into bottle while still fermenting, with 16 grams of sugar left in the juice. The yeast finishes the job under the cap: that sugar turns into alcohol and about 4 bar of natural pressure, and the wine comes out nearly dry. After six months on its lees in the bottle, every bottle is disgorged to clear the sediment.

Péter came to Balaton in 2018 after harvests in New Zealand and Chile, and started out by reviving neglected old vines on weekends. His cellar in Balatonfüred works without shortcuts: native yeasts, nothing fined, nothing filtered. This is the bottle to open first — crisp, clean-edged, and gone before you notice.

Furmint and Chardonnay from the Balaton highlands, picked by hand and pressed as whole clusters. The juice ferments spontaneously and is bottled before fermentation is complete, carrying 16 grams per litre of residual sugar. Fermentation finishes in the bottle — méthode ancestrale — building around 4 bar of pressure and leaving the wine nearly dry. It rests on its lees for six months and is then disgorged. No fining, no filtration.

Get it properly cold — around 6°C. Twenty minutes in the freezer, or a good hour in the fridge.

Open slowly, at a 45-degree angle. The wine is disgorged and pours clear, but the bottle still holds around 4 bar of natural pressure — with the chill and the angle right, it won't foam over.