Clos Cibonne, Côtes de Provence Tibouren Rosé "Cuvée Tradition", 2024

There is nothing else in Provence quite like this pink wine. While most of the region chases the same crisp, pale summer refresher, the Deforges family at Clos Cibonne has spent decades doing the opposite: building the estate almost entirely around Tibouren, a rare, ancient, thin-skinned grape that supposedly wandered from Mesopotamia to Liguria before landing on this ventilated hillside 800 meters from the Mediterranean. The real magic happens in the cellar, where the wine ages about a year under a veil of flor in hundred-year-old foudres, a Sherry- and Jura-like technique that gives it savory depth and texture no ordinary rose can touch. Organically farmed (certified organic), roughly 90% Tibouren with a splash of Grenache. This is rose for the table and for people who think they don't like rose.