Tasting Notes
In 2017, Peron extended his operation to the Piedmont region in Northern Italy Alps (just over the mountain from his Savoie winery), where he purchases local varieties from like minded growers. A combination of reduced yields in Savoie due to frost, and a strong interest and curiosity for Italian varietals saw the beginning of his second label “I Vicini”, which translates to “the Neighbours”.
100% Barbera grapes from grey and white marl soils, cultivated according to organic and biodynamic principles. These are old vines with low yields, harvested entirely by hand at the optimum point of ripeness. Carbonic maceration and spontaneous fermentation happen in neutral oak with indigenous yeast. The wine is aged in neutral oak for 16 months. - Importer Note
Jean-Yves Peron is a young artisan patiently reviving ancient, almost forgotten high-altitude vineyards in the French Alps, near Albertville. After studying oenology in Bordeaux, he trained with natural winemakers Thierry Allemand and Jean-Louis Grippt in the Rhone Valley and Bruno Schueller in Alsace.
Started in 2004, he works with multiple steeply terraced micro-parcels (3ha) of 115-130 year old Jacquere and Mondeuse vines, planted to friable mica-schist soils; his oldest parcels were planted in 1893, and have not seen phylloxera. The vines are high density (10,000/ha), single-staked gobelet, very low to the ground and very low-yielding; their uniform southern exposure gives them the sun's full benefit, as the mica-schist soil warms up in spring and enables to obtain a very good phenolic maturity. Organic farming, indegenous yeasts, non-interventionist winemaking, avoidance of filtering and fining and use of little or no sulphur makes these natural wines of the first rank. - Importer Note
| Product Type | Wine Red Barbera |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
| Winemaking Practices | Minimal Intervention |
| Vineyard Practices | Organic/Biodynamic |