2023 BK Wines Pet-Nat Pinot Noir, Adelaide Hills

100% Lenswood Pinot Noir, four Pinot Noir clones (predominantly MV6) ,wild yeasts, 30 days on skins, unfiltered & unfined, 10% new & 90% neutral French oak for six months.

This season’s Pét Nat Pinot Noir, in addition to all the joy it brings to drink, can be almost as pleasurable just to open up and sit and watch… a veritable lava lamp of lees. Unmistakably and purely Pinot Noir on the nose, just-ripe raspberries on the palate. So many processes of control go into making a Champagne, while Pét Nat is permitted to largely create itself. Where last vintage resulted in a sort of wild, messy, walk-of-shame debauchery, this vintage is tidy and compartmentalised, with a glittery bead and velveteen mousse. Good, clean, bubbly fun.