Saint-Émilion · vintage 2018
The 2018 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 96/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: After the mildew, the heat concentrated a small harvest: rich, ripe and very dense wines.
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.
Tasting
A Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé with an intense ruby colour, supple tannins, complex aromas and natural freshness.
Blend of the 2018 vintage
- 75 % Merlot
- 20 % Cabernet franc
- 5 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2018 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 80 % merlot, 18 % cabernet franc, 2 % cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2018 sheet
- 40 yrsVine age
- 175,000 bottlesProduction
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Winemaking
At the end of the pre-fermentation maceration phase, the temperature of each tank is raised to 22° to encourage the start of alcoholic fermentation.
Ageing
Once vinification is complete, each harvest is carefully aged for 12 months in barrels, in the estate’s spacious cellars equipped with temperature-controlled ventilation.
Terroir
The estate lies 3 km north-west of the medieval town of Saint-Émilion, on the edge of the Pomerol vineyards. Its soil consists of a vein of green ferric clay covered by a thick layer of silica. Three grape varieties are grown on this soil: Merlot at 68%, Cabernet Franc at 27% and Cabernet Sauvignon for the remaining 5%. It is the marriage of these three varieties, in harmony with the terroir of this area, that gives Château Grand-Corbin its character. The vineyard is made up of 35 plots with an average vine age of 40 years.
An offer on Château Grand Corbin 2018
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Texts and documents 2018
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots, back labels. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.