France

Côtes de Provence

Medium

Cork

Rosé

Tawny gold. Madeira-like salty bitter orange. I love this! Just amazingly youthful vibrancy. Concentrated with dried apricots, marmalade, a hint of quince paste and long salty freshness. What can this wine do better – absolutely amazing. It's a great wine to explain how a rosé ages. As a red or a white would have evolved over 35 years, so has this. It's silkier, better integrated, more complex. There's spice and minerality and charm – and the fruit has evolved rather than faded. It's darker, richer, more intoxicating, and less effusively youthful and berry-driven. There's hints of molasses where once there might have been orange blossom, and a firm saline minerality where once there might have been rich stone fruit and powerful acidity. It's truly a stellar wine.

Tibouren

Grenache

Clos Cibonne, Cuvée Caroline Desforges, Côtes de Provence, Cru Classé, Côtes de Provence, Provence, France, 1991

Tawny gold. Madeira-like salty bitter orange. I love this! Just amazingly youthful vibrancy. Concentrated with dried apricots, m

Clos Cibonne, Cuvée Caroline Desforges, Côtes de Provence

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