Saint-Émilion · France

Château Grand Corbin Despagne

Name: Château Grand Corbin Despagne
Brand: Château Grand Corbin Despagne
Rating: 94.0 (3 reviews)

Vineyard blend

Merlot
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. The estate does not publish the share of each grape variety: they are listed without proportions.

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Parcel plate

Relief exaggerated ×7 · elevation 16 to 51 m · average slope 1.9°

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Why buy it

Organic certified since 2013A Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé, from thirty-nine-year-old vines.
95/100 from James Suckling in 2025Three vintages at 95 or above since 2020, never below 92 since 2009.
Half the wine aged in new barrelsThe rest in one- and two-year-old casks.

The wine

A family estate since 1812, located in the north of the Saint-Emilion appellation, bordering Pomerol. The 214th vintage of the Despagne family on the Grand Corbin-Despagne terroir. François Despagne, 7th generation, vinifying his 30th vintage.

Terroir

Clay-siliceous over crasse de fer (blue clays) and ancient sands over blue clays.

Estate figures

28.79 haArea

2025 vintage figures

22 hl/haYield
38 yrsVine age
60,000 bottlesProduction

Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2025 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.

Best critic scores

James Suckling94-952025
Vinous952020
Wine Enthusiast942016
Wine Advocate932016

Vintages on record

Vintage	Best score	Vintage character	Technical sheet
2025	94-95 James Suckling	A dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness.	—
2023	94 James Suckling	Mildew cost a good share of the harvest; what was brought in is early, fresh and promising.	—
2020	95 Vinous	An early, dry year gave splendid wines, which many rank above 2018.	PDF français
2016	94 Wine Enthusiast	A dry summer on full water reserves gave fresh, deep wines, magical on the asteria limestone.	fiche · PDF

“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.

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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.