Why this vintage
- 94-95 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 4 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2025 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionA dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness.
- Limited production60 000 bottles of this vintage.
Critic scores
- James Suckling94-95
- Decanter93
- Wine Advocate90-92
- Jeb Dunnuck90-92
- Vinous90
The 2025 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness.
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 2025 vintage
Merlot (75%), Cabernet Franc (24%), Cabernet Sauvignon (1%)
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with merlot, cabernet franc.
Figures from the 2025 sheet
- 22 hl/haYield
- 38 yrsVine age
- 60,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Various operations that vary according to plot lots and vintage; multiple small pump-overs, délestage (rack-and-return), punching down. Maceration temperature: 28°C.
Ageing
45% new barrels, 35% one-year barrels, 10% 400L barrels, 10% amphorae. Bottled 21 months after the harvest.
Terroir
Clay-siliceous over crasse de fer (blue clays) and ancient sands over blue clays.
An offer on Château Grand Corbin Despagne 2025
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Texts and documents 2025
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.