Clos Cibonne Cotes de Provence Tibouren Cuvee Prestige Caroline Rose 2024
Clos Cibonne Cotes de Provence Tibouren Cuvee Prestige Caroline Rose 2024
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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.
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
