Jean-Yves Peron
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Country of Origin: France
Location: Albertville
People: Jean-Yves Peron, Owner & Winemaker
Viticulture: Practicing Organic
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Born and raised in the Savoie, Jean-Yves Péron is one of the region’s leading artisan vignerons—reviving forgotten Alpine vineyards and redefining what Savoie wine can be. His wines are vivid, textural, and unmistakably Alpine, often echoing the structure and feel of the Northern Italian “orange wine” traditions he admires. Micro-production, meticulous farming, and radically natural methods have made his cuvées some of the most sought-after in the region.
Jean-Yves studied enology in Bordeaux in the late 1990s and later deepened his perspective working with two of France’s most influential natural winemakers: Thierry Allemand in Cornas and Bruno Schueller in Alsace. In 2004, he returned home, drawn to the Savoie’s steep mica-schist slopes and century-old vines perched between 1,150 and 1,800 feet above a glacial valley. Farming these parcels is closer to mountaineering than conventional viticulture, but the reward is extraordinary fruit—some grown on ancient, phylloxera-free terroir. Several of his oldest vines date to 1893.
Today he farms roughly 4.5 hectares of single-stake gobelet vines, planted very low to the ground, naturally low-yielding, and ideally exposed to the south. He supplements this estate fruit with small, thoughtful grape purchases (the equivalent of about 1.5 hectares depending on the vintage). Farming is organic and biodynamic, without certification; the work in the vines and the purity of the wines stand on their own. Key varieties include Jacquère, Altesse, Roussanne, Mondeuse, Muscat, and Gringet.
In the cellar, he follows a minimalist, deeply natural approach: zero added sulfites, native yeast fermentations, carbonic maceration for many reds, extended skin contact for many whites, fermentations in a range of vessels (wood vats, stainless steel, fiberglass, amphora), and élevage primarily in neutral oak with some amphora.
Alongside his Savoie wines, Jean-Yves quietly introduced a négociant label in 2017 called I Vicini, produced from carefully sourced grapes across Piedmont. These bottlings maintain the same handcrafted, no-sulfur philosophy while exploring new terroirs just across the Alpine border.