Tasting Notes for Wildman Wines Piggy Pop Pet Nat 2021 from the Winery

Hazy rose petal pink, a riot of cherry aromas with a frothy palate bursting with pomegranate, blood orange and spice. The palate is tangy with the snap, crackle and pop of Nero acidity and a mouthwatering freshness from the Arneis and Fiano. Serve cold, no need to shake before opening, made for park drinking and pizza.

Piggy Pop is a deep-dive into single vineyard McLaren Vale fruit. The Nero d’Avola and Mataro are from adjacent blocks in McLaren Flat, where the slightly elevated altitude and sandy soils provide freshness (as does the addition of a small amount of Adelaide Hills Fiano and Arneis).

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Varieties

Nero d'Avola

Terroir

Nero d’Avola vines planted in 2011 on sand over clay

Vineyard

Sue Trott, McLaren Vale

Viticulture

The Trott family are dedicated growers and take pride in growing for quality not quantity. Their viticultural approach involves a great deal of attention to detail and manual labour, organic solutions and sprays are preferred with up to 30% of the fruit dropped by a “green harvest” to increase quality. The vineyard has only ever been harvested by hand.

Winemaking 

Hand-harvested fruit sees 25% is whole-bunch fermentation for three to four days before being pressing and bottling with 12 g/L residual sugar. Slow secondary fermentation in bottle results in a final pressure of 2.5 to 3.0 bar, producing a gentle foam. Wild yeast, no adds, no filtration, no fining, zero sulphur.

Wildman Wines

Pét-nat is The Wildman’s thing, and anyone who has followed the progression of the style in Australia would have come across his cult bottling, Astro Bunny. Inspired by the pét-nats from the Loire Valley he was drinking in London wine bars, Tim quit the day job and moved from the UK to South Australia in 2013 to fulfil his dream of making an Australian pét-nat, and he got straight to it—2014 was his first vintage.

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