Birichino Wines Petulant Naturel Malvasia Bianca 2021

The Malvasia Bianca ‘normale’ serves as the base for this pet-nat, comprising fruit from a vineyard planted in the early 1990s off of the Santa Lucia Range. Finding the méthode ancestrale too unpredictable and variable, they developed their ‘méthode Birichinoise’. When the grapes are pressed, a certain amount of juice is drawn off and immediately flash frozen. Shortly before the still Malvasia is prepped for bottling, they divert the requisite amount before adding the thawed juice portion back to the still base wine before sealing it up with a crown cap. Each bottle is hand filled and capped without disgorging.