Ok, hear us out. Most pét-nats, or sparkling wines produced in the ancestrale method, should not be as expensive as this one is. Many producers make ancestrale-method sparklers as a kind of a fun and playful side project, but aren’t really experts in the style. This is absolutely not the case with Domaine de Gimios, of farmer and winemaker Anne-Marie Lavaysse, who began practicing biodynamics in the late 90’s and hasn’t stopped since (in her mid-80s!). She’s a master of this style, with this bottling being dry Muscat à Petit Grains, disgorged in Jan ’24. Touching notes of elderflower, verbena, orange blossom & tangerine, with a mermaid-like, dreamy texture. Worth every penny; even better after an extra year or two in bottle.