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Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron Côte Pelée 2021

$80.00

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Style: Dry, medium-bodied red; vivid and mineral-driven with carbonic freshness, fine tannins, and a peppery spiced finish; has more structural depth than many Mondeuse wines due to the steep schist terroir
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Mondeuse; 100-year-old vines on mica-schist soils at 1,150-1,800 ft elevation; precipitous parcel above Albertville; organically and biodynamically farmed; Savoie, Vin de France
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; carbonic maceration; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in neutral oak; aged in neutral oak; zero added sulfites; no fining, no filtration
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 57-61°F; no decanting needed; enjoyable lightly chilled at 54°F; will develop for 5 or more years
Pairing: Diots au vin blanc
Similar to: Arbin Mondeuse, lighter Cornas, cool-climate Syrah from Crozes-Hermitage

Jean-Yves Péron Côte Pelée 2021 is a dry red wine made by Jean-Yves Péron from 100% Mondeuse grown on a steep, precipitous parcel just above Albertville in the Savoie region of the French Alps. The vines, more than 100 years old, grow on mica-schist soils at 1,150 to 1,800 ft elevation, farmed organically and biodynamically without formal certification. Grapes are hand-harvested and undergo carbonic maceration before spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in neutral oak barrels. Jean-Yves Péron Côte Pelée 2021 is aged in neutral oak, then bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfites under Vin de France.

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Producer profile

Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron was born in Savoie and came back to it after a winemaking education that included oenology in Bordeaux, a year working with Thierry Allemand in Cornas, time with Bruno Schueller in Alsace, and later harvest stints in Oregon and New Zealand. He returned to Chevaline, near Lake Annecy, in 2004 and began making wine from a basement, gathering old-vine micro-parcels on the steep schist slopes above Albertville as they became available. Some of the vines he farms are over a century old, survivors of a period when the Savoie hillsides were extensively cultivated before depopulation and economic change caused most of the steeper sites to be abandoned.

Péron's Mondeuse reds, of which the Côte Pelée is one of the most site-specific, are typically made by carbonic maceration, whole bunches fermenting under their own CO2 in a closed vessel before the wine is drained and pressed into neutral oak for aging. The approach emphasizes freshness, fruit definition, and the schist mineral character of the specific site rather than tannin extraction or oak influence. Each parcel is vinified separately, a reflection of Péron's belief that the differences between his various plots are meaningful and worth preserving in the glass.

In 2017, Péron moved to a new cellar on the heights above Albertville, close to his vines, which gave him more space to work with a broader range of fermentation vessels. He now uses wood vats, stainless steel, fibreglass, and terracotta amphora across the range, choosing the vessel by cuvée rather than by default. The I Vicini négociant project, sourcing organic Piedmontese fruit from growers in the Casale Monferrato and Asti areas, runs in parallel with the estate wines and now accounts for between a quarter and a third of his total annual production. Zero sulfur additions and zero fining or filtration apply across every wine in the range without exception.

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Wine region

Savoie, France

Savoie is a wine region scattered across the northern French Alps, covering four departments and a range of climatic zones from the shores of Lake Geneva to the upper Isère and Arve valleys. The AOP Vin de Savoie organizes production across 16 named crus, but a significant portion of the region's most distinctive wines, including most of Jean-Yves Péron's range, are bottled as Vin de France, outside the formal appellation rules, either because the winemaking approach or the varieties used fall outside the regulated framework.

Albertville, the city that hosted the 1992 Winter Olympics, sits at the confluence of the Isère and Arly rivers in the Tarentaise Valley, roughly 50 miles southeast of Chambéry. Above and around the city, on the old slopes of Conflans, a medieval fortified village built on a rocky promontory above the Isère, lie some of Savoie's oldest vineyard sites. These parcels, many abandoned and later reclaimed by producers like Péron, grow on steep mica-schist and limestone outcrops between 1,150 and 1,800 ft elevation. The Côte Pelée parcel, one of Péron's most steeply configured sites, sits on these old Albertville slopes at a gradient that makes mechanical work impossible and every harvest a physical undertaking.

Mondeuse is Savoie's most significant indigenous red grape and one of the region's oldest. DNA profiling has established that it is a parent variety of Syrah, sharing that distinction with Dureza, and its character reflects that lineage: dark-fruited, peppery, firmly structured, with natural acidity and tannin that support extended aging. On mica-schist soils at altitude, as at the Côte Pelée parcel, Mondeuse produces wines with a particularly pronounced mineral backbone and a freshness that gives the pepper and dark fruit character definition rather than heaviness. The Arbin cru, located a few miles north of Albertville along the Isère, is considered the most prestigious Mondeuse site in the region and provides a useful reference point for how the variety expresses itself in this immediate geographic context.

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