Saint-Émilion · France

Château Corbin

Vineyard blend

90 % Merlot
10 % Cabernet Franc

Area under vine at the estate, from its technical sheet — it does not change from one vintage to the next. Each vintage’s blend, by contrast, departs from it: that figures on its own page.

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The wine

The Corbin vineyard stretches in a single block over 13 hectares planted in the commune of Saint-Emilion, at the border of the Pomerol appellation.

Terroir

Blue clay, clay and clay-sand over an iron-rich clay subsoil.

Estate figures

13 haArea

2023 vintage figures

13.4 % vol.Alcohol
33 yrsVine age
68,000 bottlesProduction

Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2023 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.

Vintages on record

Vintage	Best score	Vintage character	Technical sheet
2023	—	Mildew cost a good share of the harvest; what was brought in is early, fresh and promising.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2022	—	The extreme drought was absorbed by the clays: a sun-driven concentration, but without the expected harshness.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2021	—	Frost followed by a cool summer brought back classic wines, lighter and more taut, to be drunk in their youth.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2020	—	An early, dry year gave splendid wines, which many rank above 2018.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2019	—	A hot end of summer on rehydrated soils gave a rare balance between freshness and substance.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2016	—	A dry summer on full water reserves gave fresh, deep wines, magical on the asteria limestone.	fiche · PDF
2015	—	A hot summer refreshed by August rains gave the great Right Bank vintage: sublime, built on fruit and depth.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2014	—	The Indian summer served the cabernet francs better than the merlots: sound, fresh wines, without great depth.	PDF français
2013	—	Coulure decimated the merlots and the rain did the rest: a light vintage, where the gap between terroirs is wider than usual.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2012	—	Merlots brought in just before the rain made for a vintage markedly more successful than on the Left Bank.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2011	—	A warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2010	—	The dry summer and cool nights gave dense, tannic wines of extraordinary ageing potential — the exact opposite of 2009.	PDF français · PDF anglais

“Best score”: the highest score recorded for this wine, with its source. “Character”: the overall reading of the year across the appellation, which an estate may depart from.

All technical sheets

The estate’s grand vin and other cuvées, vintage by vintage: VinCod sheet and printable PDF.

Château CorbinGrand vinRouge · 1 vintage

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Texts and documents 2023

The texts below copy in one click for your product sheets, catalogues and social channels. The printable sheet condenses the whole page onto a single A4 page.

Technical sheet PDF · French Technical sheet PDF · English

Visuals

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