# I Vicini Favorita (2023)

- **Producer:** Jean-Yves Péron
- **Colour:** orange
- **Type:** still
- **Grapes:** Favorita
- **Region:** Savoie, France
- **Style:** Natural
- **Alcohol:** 12.0%
- **Average price:** €35
- **Vegan:** Yes
- **Contains sulphites:** Yes
- **When to drink:** Now or Later
- **Serving temperature:** 10–12 °C
- **Aromas & flavours:** apricot, mango, passion fruit, grapefruit, orange, rose, bread, butter, dried apricot, honey

## About this wine

Jean-Yves Péron launched the I Vicini project, meaning 'The Neighbors' in Italian, following severe spring frosts in Savoie that drastically reduced his estate yields. Péron established partnerships with organic winemaking friends across the Alpine border in Piedmont, Italy, such as Giorgio Barbero in Asti. Hand-harvested grapes are transported across the Alps to Péron's cellar in Savoie, blending Italian fruit with his signature alpine skin-maceration philosophy.

## Interesting facts

- 'I Vicini' means 'The Neighbors', referring to organic Italian grape growers located just across the Alps from Savoie.
- Whole bunches of organic Favorita grapes are trucked directly across the Alpine border from Piedmont to France.
- Two weeks of skin contact transforms traditional crisp Vermentino into a textured, tropical orange wine.

## Food pairing

The bright alpine acidity and delicate skin-contact tannic structure cut through rich seafood and fresh goat cheeses, while vibrant fruit intensity compliments fresh herbs and savory white meats.

## Wine making process

The grapes undergo two weeks of whole-cluster skin contact and carbonic maceration prior to pressing. Spontaneous alcoholic fermentation occurs exclusively using indigenous yeasts in neutral oak vessels. The wine is aged for four months on fine lees in 300-liter neutral oak barrels, then bottled unfined and unfiltered with zero added sulfites.