HALCYON DAYS  2024 Chenin Blanc Petillant Naturel 12% alc

Blend: 100% Chenin Blanc

Biogro certified Organic, Two Terraces, Mangatahi sub region 

Te Matau a Māui~Hawke’s Bay

Limited production: 300 bottles made

We love Pét-Nats - to us, they are delicious, simple pleasures for sharing with friends in the sunshine, and nothing brings a smile faster than a glass of bubbles.

The beautiful certified organic Chenin Blanc grapes that went into this bottle are grown by Ian and Linda Quinn at their Two Terraces Vineyard in the Mangatahi sub-region of Hawke’s Bay. Ian and Linda are dedicated to quality and passionate about wine and we’re very lucky to be able to work with them.

We make our Pét-Nats by handpicking the grapes and pressing them like that (as whole bunches) at the winery. We then let the resulting juice ferment with its indigenous yeast in-tank. Then, after a succession of nervous predictions and, finally, with the actual level of sugar in the wine to get a bubbly bottle, we hand-bottle the sparkling wine just before the end of alcoholic ferment. The wine then finishes ferment in bottle creating a naturally sparkling, dry, slightly cloudy wine. 

To make it slightly more complex (and slightly less cloudy – and explosive) than it might normally otherwise be, we hand-disgorge all our Pét-Nats. This gets rid of much of the lees (the leftovers from ferment) and we top each bottle with the same wine, creating a lightly-sparkling, slightly less cloudy and definitively non-explosive sparkling wine that bubbles away gently, but insistently, in the glass. 

Serve chilled. 

Tasting Notes: Light sparkle, lemon, chamomile, wood-smoke on the breeze; soft on the palate with great freshness and a touch of texture

Hand-bottled, hand-disgorged and hand-labelled.