Grapes: Jacquere + Altesse + Roussanne
Region: VDF
Vintage: 2022
Viticulture: Biodynamic
Vinification: macerate for two months in carbonic and the ageing is one year in 300-litre barrels.
Aging: 1 year
Fining or Filtering: None
Sulfur: None
Notes from the Importer:
Jean Yves Péron is a vigneron who trained with Thierry Allemand and Jean Lois Gripp in the Rhone and Bruno Schueller in Alsace, all winemakers who produce natural wines. He founded his winery in 2004. His vineyards are located at a high altitude in the French Alps and he cultivates organic plots of Jacquere and Mondeuse vines that are from 115 to 130 years old. The estates have mica and shale soils and are south-facing so that the grapes ripen optimally. He grows them without using chemical herbicides or fertilisers, and vinifies them with native yeasts. In the winery, he practices the philosophy of minimal intervention and his natural wines are first class wines.
Jean-Yves Péron's Côtillon des Dames is built on a majority of Jacquère, harvested at high maturity, with Altesse and Roussanne as complementary grape varieties. All these vines grow on different terroirs: schist and limestone, limestone scree in Fréterive, mica schists in Albertville. The grapes are vinified separately and blended about two months before bottling. Depending on the variety, maceration may or may not be carbonic and of different duration. The average punching down is from two weeks to two months. Ageing is for one year in 300-litre barrels.
Great finesse characterises Côtillon des Dames, a wine of great aromatic complexity, elegant and fruity, with a superb length in the mouth. Everything has been done by the winemaker to preserve the aroma and typicity of the Jacquère grape variety and the length and maturity of the Altesse-Roussanne duo.
