num_pages: 288
description: A natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion -- and falling in love -- by the publisher of Pipette Magazine.It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the French windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of Beaujolais redolent of crushed roses with a touch of horse mane. Instead she was an under-appreciated freelance journalist and waitress in New York City frustrated at always being broke and completely miserable in love. When she tastes her first ptillant-naturel (pt-nat for short) a type of natural wine made with no additives or chemicals it sets her on a journey of self-discovery both deeply personal and professional that leads her to Paris Italy Spain Georgia and finally deep into the wilds of south Australia and which forces her in the face of her Wildman to ask herself the hard question: can she really handle the unconventional life she claims she truly wants?Have you ever been sidetracked by something that turned into a career path? Did you ever think you were looking for a certain kind of romantic partner but fell in love with someone wild passionate and with a completely different life? For Signer the discovery of natural wine became an introduction to a larger ethos and philosophy that she had long craved: one rooted in egalitarianism diversity organics environmental concerns and ancient traditions. In You Had Me at Pt-Nat as Signer begins to truly understand these revolutionary wine producers upending the industry their deep commitment to making their wine with integrity and with as little intervention as possible she is smacked with the realization that unless she faces head-on her own issues with commitment she will not be able to live a life that is as freewheeling unpredictable and singular as the wine she loves.
language: English
title: You Had Me at Pet-Nat: A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir
publisher: Hachette Books