Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron I Vicini Favorita 2023

Name: Jean-Yves Péron I Vicini Favorita 2023
Brand: Jean-Yves Péron
SKU: JYP-IVICINIFAVORITA
Price: 60.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$60.00

Style: Dry, light-to-medium-bodied white with skin-contact texture; saline and mineral-driven with lively acidity and a clean, citrus-edged finish
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Favorita (Vermentino); sandy clay soils at approximately 1,050 ft elevation; organically farmed; semi-slope vineyards, Piedmont, Italy; sourced through the I Vicini project
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; two-thirds whole-bunch 15-day maceration, one-third direct press; native yeast fermentation; 12 months in old neutral oak on lees; no fining, no filtration; zero added sulfites; 12% ABV
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 50-54°F; no decanting needed; best opened 30 minutes before serving
Pairing: Vitello tonnato
Similar to: Vermentino di Sardegna, skin-contact Cortese, light Ribolla Gialla orange

Jean-Yves Péron I Vicini Favorita 2023 is a dry white wine made by Jean-Yves Péron under his I Vicini négociant label, sourced from organically farmed Favorita, a Piedmontese white grape also known as Vermentino, grown on semi-slopes of sandy clay soils at approximately 1,050 ft elevation in Piedmont, Italy. Two-thirds of the fruit undergoes 15 days of whole-bunch maceration; the remaining third is direct-pressed. Both fractions are fermented with native yeasts and aged together for one year in old neutral oak barrels on lees. Jean-Yves Péron I Vicini Favorita 2023 is bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfites at 12% ABV under Vin de France.

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Jean-Yves Péron I Vicini Favorita 2023

$60.00

Producer profile

Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron is a Savoie-born winemaker who established his domaine in 2004 in Chevaline, near Lake Annecy, after oenology studies in Bordeaux and formative years working with Thierry Allemand in Cornas and Bruno Schueller in Alsace, two figures central to the development of natural winemaking in France. He also spent time in Oregon and New Zealand before returning to the Alps, and the combination of French natural wine philosophy and New World openness to unconventional approaches is visible across his range.

His estate covers approximately 4.5 hectares of micro-parcels on steep terraced slopes in Conflans and Fréterive, planted with Jacquère, Altesse, Roussanne, Mondeuse, and Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains, some vines over a century old. In 2011 he obtained a négociant license to supplement his estate production with purchased organic grapes from trusted growers, initially in Savoie and later in Alsace (the Les Voisins series) and Piedmont (the I Vicini series). The I Vicini project began formally in 2017, developed with the help of his friend Pietro Vergano, a Piedmont-based wine professional with deep connections to the region's small organic growers. Péron's Piedmontese partners include Paolo Angelino in Casale Monferrato and Giorgio Barbero in Asti, both organic farmers whose fruit has anchored the I Vicini range since its inception.

The I Vicini label represents Péron's sustained engagement with Piedmontese varieties, vinified in his cellar in Savoie using the same principles that govern his estate wines: whole-bunch fermentation, native yeasts, no fining, no filtration, zero added sulfites, and aging in old neutral oak or amphora. The range includes Barbera, Grignolino, Cortese, Moscato, Nebbiolo, and Favorita, each handled in a way that reflects Péron's interest in what happens when French natural wine technique is applied to Italian grape material. The Favorita is one of the most approachable wines in the I Vicini lineup, and one of the most direct expressions of the variety outside of conventional Piedmontese production.

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Wine region

Savoie, France

Piedmont is Italy's northwestern wine region, occupying a broad plain and series of rolling hills enclosed on three sides by the Alps and bounded to the south by the Apennines. It is one of Italy's most celebrated wine territories, home to Barolo, Barbaresco, Barbera d'Asti, and Moscato d'Asti, and is widely regarded as the country's most aristocratic wine region in terms of the prestige and aging potential of its best reds. The area where Jean-Yves Péron sources fruit for the I Vicini range, including the Favorita, is concentrated in the Monferrato and Asti provinces in central Piedmont, where the landscape transitions from the Langhe hills in the south to the flatter Po plain to the north.

Favorita is an ancient Piedmontese white grape, believed by some ampelographers to be a biotype of Vermentino, the variety more widely planted in Sardinia, Liguria, and Tuscany. In Piedmont, it is grown primarily in the Langhe and Roero DOC zones, where it produces light, aromatic dry whites with lemon, peach, and floral character. The grape is naturally high in acidity and low in phenolic structure, which makes it well suited to the partial maceration approach Péron uses: the 15 days of whole-bunch skin contact adds texture and salinity without overwhelming the variety's inherent delicacy.

The vineyards from which Péron sources Favorita for the I Vicini project are on sandy clay soils at approximately 1,050 ft elevation, on the semi-slopes typical of the Monferrato hills. Sandy soils drain freely, warm quickly, and produce wines with a particular freshness and light body. The elevation and clay component moderate summer heat and retain enough moisture to sustain the vine through dry periods without irrigation. The combination of these soil and climate conditions suits Favorita well, producing grapes with full phenolic ripeness alongside natural acidity that holds up through maceration and lees aging.

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