Halcyon Days 'Petillant Naturel' Chenin Blanc 2025

HALCYON DAYS  2025 Chenin Blanc Pétillant Naturel 11.5% alc

Blend: 100% Chenin Blanc

Biogro certified Organic, Two Terraces vineyard, Mangatahi subregion 

Te Matau a Māui~Hawke’s Bay

Limited production: 1140 bottles made

We have always been intrigued and loved this style. Pét-Nats are a delicious, fresh, fun and approachable expression of the vintage and vineyard. 

The beautiful, certified organic Chenin Blanc grapes that went into this bottle are grown by the wonderful Ian and Linda Quinn at their Two Terraces Vineyard in the Mangatahi subregion of Hawke’s Bay. Ian and Linda are dedicated to quality and passionate about wine, and we’re very lucky to be able to work with them.

2025 was an outstanding vintage here in Te Matau a Māui, allowing us to make a bit more Chenin Pét-Nat than last year. That means we have more to share with you!

We make our Pét-Nats by handpicking the grapes and pressing them like that (as whole bunches) at the winery. We then let the resulting juice ferment with its indigenous yeast in the tank. Then, after a succession of nervous predictions and, finally, with the actual level of sugar in the wine to get a bubbly bottle, we hand-bottle the sparkling wine just before the end of alcoholic ferment. The wine then finishes fermenting in bottle, creating a naturally sparkling, dry, slightly cloudy wine. 

To make it slightly more complex (and slightly less cloudy and less explosive) than it might normally otherwise be, we hand-disgorge all our Pét-Nats. This gets rid of much of the lees (the leftovers from ferment) and we top each bottle with the same wine, creating a lightly-sparkling, almost clear and definitively non-explosive sparkling wine that bubbles away gently, but insistently, in the glass. Serve chilled.

Hand-bottled, hand-disgorged and hand-labelled. 

ABOUT THE PRODUCER:

Halcyon Days is Amy and Olly Hopkinson-Styles, we craft exceptional certified organic wines with energy and tension from Te Matau a Māui, Aotearoa.

Halcyon Days wine is made with organic grapes from BioGro certified Osawa and Two Terraces vineyards in Mangatahi subregion of Te Matau a Māui, Hawke's Bay. The vineyards are loam over gravel alluvial soils formed by the braided Ngaruroro awa.

Our fruit is handpicked, natural ferment, and our wines are unfined, unfiltered, with no additions.