Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron Pierra Menta White 2023

Name: Jean-Yves Péron Pierra Menta White 2023
Brand: Jean-Yves Péron
SKU: JYP-PIERRAMENTA
Price: 80.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$80.00

Style: Dry, light-bodied orange wine; deeply mineral and savory with low alcohol, quince-driven fruit, and firm structure from the extended punchdown period; unusual and site-specific
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Gringet; south-facing mica-schist plot near Conflans; organically and biodynamically farmed; Savoie, Vin de France; one of the only Gringet skin-contact wines produced outside the Ayse appellation
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; 2-week carbonic maceration; 2 months punchdowns; pressed and aged one year in 300L neutral oak; no fining, no filtration; zero added sulfites; 11% ABV
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 50-54°F; decant 15-20 minutes; will develop over 3-5 years
Pairing: Reblochon with walnuts
Similar to: Skin-contact Savagnin from the Jura, structured orange Jacquère, light amphora-aged Vermentino

Jean-Yves Péron Pierra Menta White 2023 is a dry orange wine made by Jean-Yves Péron from 100% Gringet, an indigenous alpine white grape endemic to Haute-Savoie, grown on a small south-facing parcel on mica-schist soils near Conflans, Savoie. Farmed organically and biodynamically without formal certification, the grapes are hand-harvested and undergo two weeks of carbonic maceration followed by two months of punchdowns before being pressed and aged for one year in 300-liter neutral oak barrels. Jean-Yves Péron Pierra Menta White 2023 is bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfites at 11% ABV under Vin de France.

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Jean-Yves Péron Pierra Menta White 2023

$80.00

Producer profile

Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron was born in Savoie, left to study oenology in Bordeaux, then spent the years between graduation and his return to the Alps working with producers who were redefining what natural wine meant in France: Thierry Allemand in Cornas and Bruno Schueller in Alsace, two winemakers whose influence runs through every wine Péron makes. He came back to Savoie in 2004 with a precise set of principles: farm organically and biodynamically using horsetail and nettle preparations rather than synthetic treatments; ferment every wine with native ambient yeasts; age on lees without fining or filtration; and add no sulfites at any stage.

The estate is built around micro-parcels gathered over two decades on the steep schist terraces above Albertville and in neighboring valleys at elevations between 1,150 and 1,800 ft. Total planted area is approximately 4.5 hectares, worked entirely by hand, covering Jacquère, Altesse, Roussanne, Mondeuse, Gringet, and a small amount of rare local varieties including Persan and Bergeron. The oldest vines on the estate were planted in 1893.

Péron is one of the few winemakers in Savoie, or anywhere in France, who grows Gringet outside the Ayse appellation and makes a still, skin-contact dry wine from it. The Pierra Menta is produced in very small quantities from a single parcel and represents one of the most unusual expressions of a French indigenous variety currently in production. The decision to give the grape two weeks of carbonic maceration followed by two months of punchdowns was Péron's own experiment, designed to see what Gringet could express when pushed well beyond its conventional sparkling wine format.

His négociant projects, the I Vicini range from Piedmont and the Les Voisins range from Alsace, run in parallel with the estate wines, adding Barbera, Grignolino, Moscato, Cortese, Pinot Gris, and Muscat from Italian and Alsatian organic growers to his annual production of approximately 15,000 bottles across all labels.

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Wine region

Savoie, France

Gringet is one of the rarest wine grapes in France. It is endemic to Haute-Savoie, the northernmost of the four departments that make up the Savoie wine region, and is historically associated with the commune of Ayse, near Bonneville, roughly 25 miles north of Chamonix in the Arve Valley. In Ayse, Gringet is the sole variety permitted in the local AOC Vin de Savoie Ayse appellation, where it has traditionally been used to produce light, low-alcohol sparkling wines by the méthode traditionnelle. Outside of Ayse, the variety is almost unknown: total plantings across France number a few hectares, making it one of the rarest grapes in production in the country.

Jean-Yves Péron grows his Gringet on a small south-facing parcel near Conflans, the medieval fortified village above Albertville at the confluence of the Isère and Arly rivers, roughly 20 miles south of Ayse. The soils here are mica-schist, the same friable, mineral-rich rock that underlies most of Péron's estate parcels in this part of Savoie. South-facing mica-schist at altitude, between 1,150 and 1,800 ft above sea level, collects maximum sunlight during the alpine growing season, which compensates for the cool mountain temperatures and allows Gringet to ripen its naturally low-sugar fruit to full phenolic maturity.

The Pierra Menta is named for the mountain peak of the same name in the Aravis chain, visible from the vineyards, which rises to over 8,200 ft and forms part of the dramatic backdrop to the farming and winemaking work below it. The name is a reminder of how physically rooted Péron's project is in its alpine landscape.

In Ayse, Gringet is treated as a sparkling wine grape, harvested early for high acid and low sugar, and given no skin contact. Péron's approach inverts that tradition entirely: later harvest, two weeks of carbonic maceration, two months of punchdowns, and a year in neutral oak produce a wine with the mineral precision Gringet's terroir delivers, but with a structure and depth the sparkling tradition never aimed for.

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