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Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron La Grande Journée 2023

Name: Jean-Yves Péron La Grande Journée 2023
Brand: Jean-Yves Péron
SKU: JYP-JOURNEE
Price: 90.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$90.00

Style: Dry, medium-to-full-bodied orange wine; complex, spiced, and layered with structured tannins from three months of punchdowns, powerful mineral backbone, and real aging potential; the most substantial white in the Péron range
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Altesse; old-vine terraces on mica-schist soils near Albertville; harvested at maximum ripeness; organically and biodynamically farmed; Conflans, Savoie, Vin de France
Winemaking: Hand-harvested at advanced ripeness; 2 weeks carbonic maceration; 3 months punchdowns in vat; racked and aged minimum 12 months in 300L neutral oak on lees; no fining, no filtration; zero added sulfites; 12.5% ABV
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 54-57°F; decant 30-45 minutes; will develop for 5-10 years from vintage
Pairing: Poulet de Bresse au vin jaune
Similar to: Structured skin-contact Savagnin from Jura, aged Roussette de Savoie, oxidative white Hermitage

Jean-Yves Péron La Grande Journée 2023 is a dry orange wine made by Jean-Yves Péron from 100% Altesse grown on old-vine terraces of mica-schist soils near Albertville in Savoie, farmed organically and biodynamically without formal certification. Grapes are harvested at the most advanced ripeness possible, then undergo two weeks of carbonic skin maceration followed by three months of punchdowns in vat. After racking, the wine ages at least one year in 300-liter neutral oak barrels on lees. Jean-Yves Péron La Grande Journée 2023 is bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfites at around 12.5% ABV.

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Jean-Yves Péron La Grande Journée 2023

$90.00

Producer profile

Jean-Yves Péron

Péron was born in Savoie, trained in Bordeaux, worked with Thierry Allemand in Cornas and Bruno Schueller in Alsace, made harvests in Oregon and New Zealand, then came back to the Alps in 2004 with a clear idea of what he wanted to make and very little infrastructure to make it with. He started in a basement in Chevaline, near Lake Annecy, and accumulated micro-parcels of old vines on the schist terraces above Albertville as they became available, working them entirely by hand.

His total estate is approximately 4.5 hectares, planted with Jacquère, Altesse, Roussanne, Mondeuse, Gringet, and small quantities of Persan and Bergeron. Some of the Mondeuse and Jacquère vines were planted in 1893 and have never seen phylloxera, growing on the naturally resistant mica-schist soils without rootstock grafting. The Altesse vines used for La Grande Journée are among the older plantings on the estate, located in Conflans, and their age is one of the factors that allows Péron to harvest at the advanced ripeness the wine requires without the risk of overripening or losing acidity.

The production of La Grande Journée is very small, typically a few hundred bottles per vintage, making it the most limited release in the estate range. It is also the wine that most clearly demonstrates the aging argument for Alpine Altesse: tasted young, it is intense and demanding; tasted after five years, it has the complexity and depth of a much more famous white wine from a much more famous region. Péron has been making the wine since the early vintages of his domaine and describes it as the cuvée he is most patient about releasing.

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Wine region

Savoie, France

Altesse is Savoie's most prestigious indigenous white grape. It is the only variety permitted in the Roussette de Savoie AOC and appears under several named crus within the broader Vin de Savoie appellation. In terms of phenolic structure, natural acidity, and aging potential, it stands apart from all other Savoie white varieties and is capable of producing wines that develop over decades in the right conditions. It is thought to have arrived in Savoie from Cyprus centuries ago, possibly brought back by the counts of Savoie during the Crusades.

The terroir where Jean-Yves Péron grows his Altesse for La Grande Journée is the steep, terraced mica-schist slopes above Conflans, the medieval fortified village built on a rocky promontory above the confluence of the Isère and Arly rivers near Albertville. These terraces, at elevations between 1,150 and 1,800 ft, face due south and receive long hours of direct sun during the alpine growing season, which compensates for the cool mountain temperatures and allows Altesse, a late-ripening variety, to reach the full phenolic maturity that Péron insists on harvesting. The mica-schist soils, friable and mineral-rich with a distinctive iron-mica content, produce wines of angular, precise mineral character that is difficult to achieve on the limestone and clay soils found at lower elevations.

The combination of high-altitude mica-schist, late harvest, and the most extended maceration of any white wine in the Péron range, two weeks of carbonic maceration followed by three full months of punchdowns, produces a wine of unusual structural weight and complexity for Altesse. In conventional Savoie production, Altesse is typically vinified as a direct-press white with stainless steel fermentation, designed for early drinking. La Grande Journée takes the same variety to the opposite end of the stylistic spectrum: age-worthy, oxidative in the best sense, and deeply site-specific in its mineral expression.

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