Name: Clos Cibonne Cotes de Provence Tibouren Cuvee Prestige Caroline Rose 2023
Brand: COTES DE PROVENCE ROSE
SKU: HAW-cibonneCAROLINE-23
Price: 57.99 USD
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Clos Cibonne Cotes de Provence Tibouren Cuvee Prestige Caroline Rose 2023

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My favorite rose in the entire range, the very limited Caroline is a special bottling of old vine parcels from Cibonne planted in schist soils with some clay top soils. It also sees the smallest barrels at 300L, bigger than a standard 225L barrel and also mostly used oak. They introduce small single digits of new oak each vintage that is completely unnoticeable. - Tom

Clos Cibonne’s Cuvée Prestige Caroline stands uniquely apart from other rosés as a classic, one-of-a-kind Côtes de Provence rosé featuring the tibouren grape in the lead role, with grenache and syrah. Caroline is a limited cuvée named for Claude and Brigitte’s daughter, a selection made exclusively of specific plots from the estate’s over 40-year-old organic tibouren grapes planted on calcareous clay and schist and fermented in 300L barrels. Like the other Cibonne Cuvées, Caroline has the structure to improve in bottle for up to a decade or more.

Caroline is a limited cuvée named for Claude and Brigitte’s daughter, a selection made exclusively of specific plots from the estate’s over 40-year-old organic tibouren grapes planted on calcareous clay and schist and fermented in 300L barrels.
Like the other Cibonne Cuvées, Caroline has the structure to improve in bottle for up to a decade or more.
Clos Cibonne’s Cuvée Prestige Caroline stands uniquely apart from other rosés as a classic, one-of-a-kind Côtes de Provence rosé featuring the tibouren grape in the lead role, with grenache and sometimes syrah.

Winemaking After an early morning manual harvest, the grapes are destemmed and directly pressed. The must goes into temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, where the fermentation process begins with native yeasts. Once the fermentation is underway, the must is racked into 300L French barrels (10% new) where fermentation is completed with daily bâtonnage. Once fermentation is done, the wine ages on the fine lees for eight to ten months in the same barrel.

Site: Le Pradet at 50m
Grapes: 90% Tibouren / 10% Grenache
Vine Age: Over 40 years old
Soil: Clay calcareous and schist
Farming: Certified Organic
Vinification: Fermented by native yeasts in 300L French oak barrels (less than 10% new usually)
Aging: Eight to ten months in the same 300L French oak barrels, one year in bottle

95 pts Vinous for the 2019
Limpid onion skin color. Displays an array of red berry, citrus fruit and floral qualities, along with hints of ginger, sea salt, orange pith and toasted almond. Stains the palate with vibrant, mineral-laced strawberry, blood orange, salted nut and candied rose flavors that are firmed by a spine of juicy acidity. Shows superb depth as well as energy and finishes extremely long and focused, with repeating florality and a sappy red berry quality.