Oyster River - Morphos Pet Nat (750ml)

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Producer	Oyster River
Country	United States
Region	Maine
Varietal	Sparkling
Sku	26243
Size	750ml

Naturally lower ABV, this Pet-Nat remains a all-time favorite of bothour staff and customer.

About Oyster River: Located 175 miles north of Boston and 150 west of Nova Scotia, Oyster River Winegrowers is a small-scale operation owned by Brian Smith in Warren, Maine. His farm is intentionally low-tech and relies on draft horses and cows to be integral parts of the sustainability cycle in which man, animals, and nature each feed, and are fed, by the next organism in the chain. Smith makes cider from local apples and wine from European Vitis vinifera and American hybrids.

This Wine: Morphos White  Pet-Nat is a blend of hybrids Cayuga White and Seyval Blanc, both very popular in the cooler parts of the northeast, that is vinified into a naturally sparkling wine through méthode ancestrale using no "acidulation, deacidification, chaptalization, amelioration, tannins, enzymes, or yeast nutrients." We've had plenty of these wines from Europe, but Maine? Never. This is a very exciting addition.

Brian says: "Bottled during the end of active fermentation, this wine continues to ferment in the bottle, leaving it dry, cloudy, yeasty, full of life with a natural effervescence. Released immediately after bottling, it is the fresh wine of the harvest. It if intensely fruity after bottling, but ages gracefully into more yeasty, toasty aromas."