NV Vignale di Cecilia Vino Frizzante Bianco ‘Val di Spin’

Price: $25 Region: Padova < Veneto < ItalyGrapes: 40% Garganega, 30%Glera, 30% PinellaVineyard/Cellar Stats: Certified organic/biodynamic farming, 40 year-old vines on Calcareous Stone soils, fermented in stainless steel; méthode ancestrale; no added SO2Winemaker: Paolo Brunello This is how Paolo Brunello, the farmer and winemaker of Vignale di Cecilia near Venice, describes his delicious pet’nat: “an experimental trip in the world of sparkling wine, blinking an eye to the traditional natural fermentation in the bottle, while maintaining its natural yeasts.” He may or may not have been high when he wrote that, but his description is spot-on – this is hippy beer drinker wine, but for a natural beer geek, not a Bud-slugger. It’s bright and refreshing, the sort of thirst-quenching thing you want to drink after the last ski-run of the day, or a sweaty hike. Made in the ancestral method, the fermentation is still going on in the bottle when they cap it, trapping the natural CO2 and y