Wine with Leslie: A trio of sparkling pet-nat wines from €20

"What I love about them is their lightness of touch and the appetising yeasty flavours, caused by the unfiltered dead yeast cells that are still present in the bottle and show as a milky sediment when the bottle has sat still for any length of time."

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February has so far seemed even darker than January so this week I’m on a mission to cheer you all up with a trio of pet-nat sparkling wines.

As I’m sure you know by now pet-nat is how fizz used to be before Madame Clicquot invented the riddling process in Champagne to remove sediment caused by bottle fermentation so she could present a crystal-clear wine.