🍷 Perlant
A French word for wine with a barely noticeable sparkle.
Perlant is a French word for wine with barely noticeable bubbles. It is not sparkling and is even gentler than pétillant. There is very little gas: you feel a slight prickle on the tongue and see a few tiny beads on the glass.
The bubbles usually remain from fermentation. If the wine is bottled early and cold, some carbon dioxide stays in it. Sometimes this is done on purpose to make the wine taste fresher. An example is some Muscadet from the Melon de Bourgogne grape, aged on its lees and bottled straight from them.
The word is also used in Switzerland, where many white wines from Chasselas are slightly perlant. Perlant sits close to semi-sparkling wine but with even lower gas pressure. It is a description of style rather than an official category.
How it connects to Wine
🍷 Perlant → → → 🍇 Melon de Bourgogne → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🍷 Semi-sparkling wine
- Where it is made
- 🗺️ French wine, 🗺️ Swiss wine
- Related to
- 🍇 Melon de Bourgogne
- Similar and different
- 🍷 Semi-sparkling wine, 🍷 Pétillant
Frequently asked questions
What does perlant mean on a label?
That the wine has barely noticeable bubbles, fewer than pétillant or sparkling wine.
Where do the bubbles in perlant wine come from?
They remain from fermentation when the wine is bottled early and cold, before the gas escapes.
Where is perlant wine found?
In France, for example in Muscadet, and in Switzerland, especially in Chasselas whites.
What to read next
- 🗺️ French wine — The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grapes and appellations.
- 🗺️ Swiss wine — The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grapes and appellations.
Similar
🍷 Pét-nat · 🍷 Pétillant · 🍷 Aerated semi-sparkling wine · 🍷 Agulha · 🍷 Perlwein · 🍷 Frizzante
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