Clos Cibonne Cotes de Provence Tibouren Cuvee Prestige Caroline Rose 2022
Clos Cibonne Cotes de Provence Tibouren Cuvee Prestige Caroline Rose 2022
Clos Cibonne
Cotes de Provence
A blend of 90% Tibouren and 10% Grenache matured in 300-liter barrels over 10 months, the 2021 Cotes de Provence Rose Cuvee Prestige Caroline from Clos Cibonne has a lively, aromatic bouquet with aromas of spring flowers, garrigue, red berries, spices, iodine, sweet spices and perfectly integrated oaky notes. Medium to full-bodied, it’s enveloping and full-bodied, fruity and fresh, its gastronomic mid-palate segueing into a sappy finish. It's approachable now but also built to evolve gracefully over the next 3-5 years.
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 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 (10% new)
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.
