Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron Les Barrieux 2023

Name: Jean-Yves Péron Les Barrieux 2023
Brand: Jean-Yves Péron
SKU: JYP-LESBARRIEUX
Price: 80.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$80.00

Style: Dry, medium-bodied orange wine; complex and mineral-driven with structured skin tannins, lively alpine acidity, and a long savory finish; a serious wine that benefits from aging
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Altesse (Roussette); limestone and schist soils at 1,475 ft elevation; old vines; organically and biodynamically farmed; Les Barrieux lieu-dit, Savoie, France
Winemaking: Extended skin contact; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts; 12 months on lees in old neutral oak; no fining, no filtration; zero added sulfites; 12% ABV
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 52-56°F; decant 20-30 minutes; will develop significantly over 3-5 years
Pairing: Poulet de Bresse with cream sauce
Similar to: Structured Roussette de Savoie, skin-contact Altesse, orange Savagnin from the Jura

Jean-Yves Péron Les Barrieux 2023 is a dry orange wine made by Jean-Yves Péron from 100% Altesse, the indigenous Savoie grape also known as Roussette, grown on steep limestone slopes at 1,475 ft elevation in the Savoie region of the French Alps. Farmed organically and biodynamically without formal certification, the vines grow on schist and limestone soils. The grapes undergo extended skin contact followed by spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, then age for 12 months on lees in old neutral oak barrels. Jean-Yves Péron Les Barrieux 2023 is bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfites at 12% ABV.

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Jean-Yves Péron Les Barrieux 2023

$80.00

Producer profile

Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron may be the figure most responsible for putting Savoie's white wines on the natural wine world's radar. He grew up in the region, left to study oenology in Bordeaux, then spent formative time with Thierry Allemand in Cornas and Bruno Schueller in Alsace before going further afield to Oregon and New Zealand. He came back to the Alps in 2004 and started making wine from a basement, then gradually accumulated micro-parcels of old-vine Jacquère, Mondeuse, Altesse, Roussanne, and Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains on the steep schist terraces around Conflans and Fréterive, high above Albertville.

What set Péron apart from the beginning was his decision to macerate his whites on skins, inspired by the orange wine traditions he had encountered in northern Italy and later in his travels. He began macerating Jacquère in 2006 and gradually extended the maceration times, reaching weeks and eventually months for certain cuvées. Les Barrieux is his Altesse expression, named for the lieu-dit where the vines grow, and represents his conviction that the variety's firm phenolic structure makes it better suited to extended skin contact than Jacquère, which he regards as more delicate.

The estate now covers approximately 4.5 hectares, supplemented by purchased organic grapes through his négociant activities, which include the I Vicini series from Piedmont and the Les Voisins series from Alsace. Péron moved to a new cellar above Conflans in 2017, giving him the space to work with a wider range of vessels: wood vats, stainless steel, fibreglass, and terracotta amphora. He uses all of them, choosing the vessel by wine rather than by habit. The approach across every wine is the same: native yeasts, whole bunches or partial skin contact depending on the cuvée, no fining, no filtration, and zero added sulfites from harvest to bottle.

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Wine region

Savoie, France

Savoie is a mountain wine region in the northern French Alps, covering a fragmented landscape of steep valley sides, glacial lake shores, and elevated terraces across four departments: Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Ain, and Isère. The region sits at the border of France, Switzerland, and Italy, and its wine culture reflects that geographic position: indigenous varieties that exist nowhere else in the world, farming conditions shaped by altitude and Alpine weather, and a winemaking tradition that runs parallel to but distinct from the rest of France.

Altesse is Savoie's most prestigious indigenous white grape, grown primarily on the steep limestone and schist hillsides that rise above the shores of Lake Bourget and the Rhône Valley. It is the only variety permitted in the Roussette de Savoie AOC, where it must represent 100% of the blend, and it also appears under the broader Vin de Savoie AOC with several named crus where Altesse can be specified. The grape produces wines of naturally high acidity, firm structure, and considerable aromatic complexity, ranging from fresh and citrus-driven in youth to nutty, honeyed, and mineral with age. Unlike Jacquère, which is light and delicate, Altesse has a phenolic structure that responds well to skin contact and lees aging, developing a texture and depth that positions it closer to aged white Burgundy or Jura Savagnin than to the more immediately approachable whites of the region.

The Les Barrieux vineyard, where Jean-Yves Péron's Altesse is grown, sits on steep limestone and schist slopes at 1,475 ft elevation, among the higher sites in the Savoie wine zone. Limestone at this altitude produces wines with firm natural acidity and a mineral character that anchors the aromatic complexity developed through skin contact. The combination of old vines, biodynamic farming, and extended maceration transforms the site's natural tension into a wine that genuinely benefits from cellaring.

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