Jean-Yves Peron I Vicini Barbera 2022

Type: Red
Producer: Jean Yves Peron
Country: France
Region: Piemonte
Grape: Barbera
Year: 2022
Farming: Biodynamic

This bottle from Jean-Yves Péron's I Vicini collection is an organic, biodynamic, and natural red wine. Vinified in Savoie from grapes harvested in Piedmont, it is made from Barbera, cultivated in Asti and Alba. The second most widely used red grape variety in Italy after Sangiovese, Barbera produces full-bodied, colorful wines with notes of red fruits. This vintage is classified as a Wine of the European Community.

Hand-harvested, with no added sulfites, filtration, or fining. The two Barbera wines macerate for three months with punching down and a fifteen-day carbonic maceration. The wine is aged for one year in 225-liter barrels. Its 13.5% alcohol content reflects the desire not to exaggerate its richness and power: the average Barbera today is closer to 15%.

This Barbera I Vicini is a great wine in every sense of the word. Long, very fruity, generous, deep, with superb acidity from a moderately ripe harvest, it is both serious and joyful, intense and concentrated. Finesse, minerality, tension, beautiful intense and colorful red color.