Why this vintage
- The 2021 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionFrost followed by a cool summer brought back classic wines, lighter and more taut, to be drunk in their youth.
- Limited production39 000 bottles of this vintage.
The 2021 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 85/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Frost followed by a cool summer brought back classic wines, lighter and more taut, to be drunk in their youth.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Blend of the 2021 vintage
- 90 % Merlot
- 10 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2021 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 90 % merlot, 10 % cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2021 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 30.5 hl/haYield
- 31 yrsVine age
- 39,000 bottlesProduction
Label
Winemaking
Hand harvest in small crates: Merlot from 23rd September to 5th October, Cabernet Franc on 4th October. Yield: 30.5 hl/ha. Densimetric sorting. Extraction by pump-overs. Small-capacity (plot-by-plot) unlined concrete vats, temperature-controlled. Vatting period of 19 à 26 days. Estimated selection: first wine 78%, second wine 22%.
Terroir
Clay and clay-sand over an iron-rich clay subsoil.
An offer on Château Corbin 2021
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Texts and documents 2021
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Visuals
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