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Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron Côtillon des Dames 2023

Name: Jean-Yves Péron Côtillon des Dames 2023
Brand: Jean-Yves Péron
SKU: JYP-COTILLON
Price: 65.00 USD
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Style: Dry, medium-bodied orange wine; structured and complex with angular skin tannins from two months of maceration, layered fruit, and a firm mineral backbone from the two distinct soil types; built for aging
Grapes & Terroir: Jacquère (majority), Altesse, Roussanne; mica-schist soils (Albertville) and limestone scree (Fréterive); old vines; organically and biodynamically farmed; Savoie, Vin de France
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; whole-bunch carbonic maceration approximately 2 months with regular pigeage; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts; approximately 12 months in 300L neutral oak; no fining, no filtration; zero added sulfites
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 52-56°F; decant 30-45 minutes; develops significantly over 5 or more years
Pairing: Tartiflette
Similar to: Structured Roussette de Savoie orange, Jura Savagnin orange, skin-contact Altesse

Jean-Yves Péron Côtillon des Dames 2023 is a dry orange wine made by Jean-Yves Péron from a blend of Jacquère, Altesse, and Roussanne, sourced from two vineyard parcels with distinct soils: one in Albertville on mica-schist and one in Fréterive on limestone scree. Farmed organically and biodynamically without certification, the vines are old and worked entirely by hand. Whole bunches undergo two months of carbonic maceration with regular pigeage, followed by spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, then approximately one year in 300-liter neutral oak barrels. Jean-Yves Péron Côtillon des Dames 2023 is bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfites.

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Producer profile

Jean-Yves Péron

Jean-Yves Péron is a vigneron who started making wine in Savoie in 2004, working out of a basement in Chevaline, near Lake Annecy, with a few hectares of old-vine Mondeuse he had gathered from abandoned terraces above Albertville. He had come back from Bordeaux, where he had studied oenology, and from stints with Thierry Allemand in Cornas and Bruno Schueller in Alsace, two of the most respected practitioners of natural winemaking in France. He had also worked in Oregon and New Zealand, encountering sulfur-free winemaking approaches in both countries before settling on his own practice: indigenous yeasts throughout, no fining or filtration, and zero sulfur additions from harvest to bottle.

What made Péron's white wines distinct from the beginning was the decision to macerate them on skins, inspired by the northern Italian orange wine tradition and encouraged by his time with Schueller, who had been exploring extended skin contact in Alsace for years. He began with Jacquère in 2006 and extended the maceration time progressively, eventually reaching two months for the Côtillon des Dames, with regular pigeage to extract phenolics and aromatic compounds not accessible through conventional pressing.

He moved to a new purpose-built cellar above Conflans in 2017, giving him more working space and a range of vessels: 300-liter neutral oak barrels, stainless steel tanks, fibreglass vats, wood vats, and terracotta amphora. His estate covers approximately 4.5 hectares across multiple micro-parcels, each vinified separately, with négociant grapes from the I Vicini (Piedmont) and Les Voisins (Alsace) projects adding a further dimension to his annual production of around 15,000 bottles.

The Côtillon des Dames, named for the Savoyard nickname for Jacquère, is one of his most discussed wines: a multi-variety, multi-terroir blend that challenges the standard assumption that Savoie whites are light and simple. It is the wine that most clearly demonstrates what happens when Péron's approach, two months of whole-bunch maceration, long lees contact in neutral oak, and zero additions, is applied to the region's most ubiquitous grape.

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Wine region

Savoie, France

Savoie is a scattered alpine wine region in southeastern France, covering terraced hillsides, glacial lake shores, and mountain valley slopes across four departments. The region's diversity is as much geological as climatic: within a few miles of each other, a winemaker can farm on mica-schist, limestone scree, clay-limestone, sandstone, and moraine material, each producing wines with perceptibly different mineral character, structure, and aging potential.

Jean-Yves Péron draws on two of the region's most contrasting soil types for the Côtillon des Dames. The Albertville parcel, on steep mica-schist slopes above the Isère confluence, produces wine with the angular, iron-edged minerality and firm structure typical of schist terroirs. The Fréterive parcel, in the Isère Valley south of Albertville, sits on limestone scree derived from ancient rockfall material, producing wines with more roundness, more floral character, and a calcium-driven salinity that complements the schist's harder edge. Blending across these two sites creates a wine more dimensionally complex than either parcel could produce alone.

Jacquère is Savoie's most widely planted white grape, covering around 900 hectares across the region's crus. It is a high-yielding, naturally high-acid variety with delicate aromatics and low phenolic structure. In direct-press, stainless-aged production, it produces the light, mineral whites most associated with Savoie at retail. Under two months of whole-bunch carbonic maceration with regular pigeage, however, its character transforms entirely: the carbonic process extracts aromatic compounds that are inaccessible through conventional pressing, and the phenolics from the skin and stem contact give the wine a texture and weight that Jacquère's delicate reputation does not suggest. The Altesse and Roussanne components add aromatic complexity and structural depth, each variety contributing what the others lack.

The name Côtillon des Dames is itself a Savoyard reference: côtillon is an old French word for a type of petticoat, and in the regional dialect the name is an affectionate nickname for the Jacquère grape.

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