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Cuvée des Célestins, Henri Bonneau

1978 · 1989 · 1990
Origin
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Grape
Grenache
Vintages held
1978 · 1989 · 1990
Delivery
Insured and temperature-controlled to Switzerland

Quoted on request. We do not publish prices, and quantities are often one.

Henri Bonneau made wine in a damp cellar under the village, in old barrels he refused to replace, and released it when he felt like it. The Célestins is Grenache from the pebbles of La Crau at its most profound.

What the cellar holds

In the cellar: 1978 (three bottles, 100 points), 1989, 1990 Cuvée Spéciale, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2010 (twelve bottles), 2014, and the 2010 in magnums.

Vintages in the cellar

Croian & Hein places bottles like this one with a small circle of collectors in Switzerland: discreetly, by appointment, and with the condition of every bottle described plainly before it travels.