2020 Sainte Croix Celèstra
2020 Sainte Croix Celèstra
The wine smells of ripe strawberries, cherries, and blackberries. The fruit aromas are accompanied by subtle spicy notes. On the palate, the wine is full of power and presents itself with fine tannins.
93/100 points Konstantin Baum
The sky is currently blue almost everywhere, but that is not the norm in our latitudes. To see more of the blue sky, Jon and Elizabeth Bowen moved to the south of France, to the shores of the Mediterranean, and made wine. In doing so, they not only discovered a new attitude to life, but also that they can make great wines. Who would have thought it? You may already know their Magneric, but the absolute top of their quality pyramid is Celèstra.
Celèstra is made from old vines that were planted around 1968. These gnarled creatures produce extremely small yields of aromatic Grenache grapes. The wine is matured for a year and a half in small wooden barrels on the lees and then bottled unfined and unfiltered. The wine is always very rich and complex. Incidentally, Celèstra means blue in Occitan dialect and heaven in Latin, making it the perfect wine for blue-sky thinking ...
The wine smells of ripe strawberries, cherries, and blackberries. The fruit aromas are accompanied by subtle spicy notes. On the palate, the wine is full of power and presents itself with fine tannins.
93/100 points Konstantin Baum
