Lightly sparkling, bubbly, carbonated, fizzy. Vin pétillant = sparkling wine.
Originally only used by the French. Like Perlé wines, they contain a little gas, causing a prickle in the mouth. These wines may not have a pressure more than two atmospheres. (Sparkling wines and Champagnes have a minimum of four atmospheres pressure).
(Peh-tee-yahN) - Like the Italian "frizzante," slightly sparkling, perhaps sensed merely as a prickling on the tongue without actual bubbles being visible.
This means a 'lightly carbonated wine' , and yes, it's French.
French): Slightly sparkling.
'Pearling' or spritzig; wine with natural fine bubbles which stick to the glass
(pet tee-yahn) lightly sparkling
This means the wine is lightly sparkling or crackling.
Effervescent with an natural light sparkle.
(France) A term used to describe a lightly sparkling wine. Pétillance may occur in many wines not intended to be sparkling at all, such as top German Rieslings which may often be bottled with a small amount of residual carbon dioxide, hence the sparkle.
A petillant wine is somewhat sparkling, or carbonated, but not as much as Champagne.
French term for a very lightly sparkling wine.