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2024
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Espresso, flowers, chocolate, cherries, and licorice create the aromatic profile. Medium-bodied, soft, round, and vibrant, there is lift, as well as deep red fruits in the mid-palate, and in the almost creamy finish. The wine is produced from blending 84% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2028-2040. 91-93 Pts 1,210 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2024
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, fragrant, and fresh, the wine delivers its message of sweet, ripe, bright red cherries, currants, and soft, elegant textures easily. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. The wine blends 95% Merlot with 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2028-2038. 90-92 Pts 968 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2023
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (Saint-Émilion Grand Cru)
From the get-go, the perfume offers its aromatic profile featuring its showy display of Allspice, flowers, licorice, and black raspberries with little effort. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, soft, elegant, and fruity, leaving you with sweet, ripe, refined black raspberries, cherries, and plums that carry all the way through to its creamy, supple-textured finish. The wine is produced from blending 75% Merlot, with 25% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2048. 61 Views Tasted Mar 17, 2026 |
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2023
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, licorice, chocolate, cinnamon, black cherries, and black raspberries fill the aromatic profile. Silky, long, and vibrant, with richness, creamy textures, and a vibrancy to the sweet, dark fruits in the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine is produced from blending 75% Merlot, with 25% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 2,116 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Plums, flowers, and cherries, with accents of licorice, and cocoa form the character of this medium-bodied, bright, fresh, red pit fruit, and berry-filled wine. You can enjoy this with ease on release, or age it for more complexity. Drink from 2026-2038. 91-93 Pts. 981 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Corbin (Saint-Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, herbs, licorice, espresso and red pit fruits show easily on the nose, and on the medium-bodied palate. You can enjoy this with ease on release, or age it for more complexity. Drink from 2026-2038. 54 Views Tasted Mar 17, 2026 |
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2023
Château Corbin Michotte (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Cherries, flowers, wet earth, espresso and cocoa form the core this wine. The medium-bodied palate is forward, fresh, and oaky in the finish. If the oak becomes better integrated with age, the wine will offer a better experience and a higher score. But, at the moment, the wood dominates the wine. Drink from 2026-2034. 87-89 Pts. 1,324 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
All it takes is the initial sniff, and sip before you're hooked. If the nose, with its flowers, licorice, red pit fruits, and marine influences doesn't move you, the palate, with its silky-freshness, creamy, sexy tannins, and perfectly ripe, sweet fruits is going to get you. The proprietor, Anabelle Cruse says this is the best vintage she has ever produced. And she is right! Bravo! The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2042 1,252 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Flowers, black cherries, black raspberries, licorice, and dark plum aromas come through in the nose. On the palate, the medium-bodied wine is lush, rich, and polished with more depth than usual. You can taste, and feel the balance, freshness, and levels of perfectly ripe pit fruits with ease. The wine finishes with dark, red pit fruits, and even darker chocolate. What really works here this year is the purity in the fruits. The proprietor, Anabelle Cruse says this is the best vintage she has ever produced. And I think she is right! The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV, 3.65 pH. September 6 - September 23 were the dates of the harvest. Drink from 2025-2042. 93-95 Pts. 2,347 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2022
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Mint, chocolate, espresso, flowers and red pit fruit aromatics shoot from the glass as soon as the wine is poured. The palate is what steals the show with its expression of perfectly ripe, silky-textured, black cherries, and plums. This is a hedonistic wine with freshness, elegance, and purity in the lengthy finish. The wine blends 75% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2047. 1,940 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Dark in color, the wine pops with chocolate, licorice, black cherries, plums and flowers in the nose. Medium-bodied, round, fresh and sweet, the dark red fruits with their lush textures, lift and sucrosity create a gorgeous mouth-feel on the mid-palate and in the finish. The wine is produced from blending 75% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14.5% ABV, 3.64 pH. Drink from 2025-2045. 94-95 Pts. 5,344 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2022
Château Grand Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, silky, fresh, and vibrant, the salt-tinted fruits are ripe, sweet, vibrant, and creamy in the mid-palate, and in the elegant, supple finish. You can enjoy this on release, or age it for more complexity. This is a superb effort from Grand Corbin. Drink from 2025-2040. 2,000 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Floral in nature, the wine is packed with ripe dark pit fruits, creamy-textures, and cocoa in the nose, and on the palate. Medium-bodied, silky, and fresh, the wine is refined, elegant, and energetic. Drink from 2025-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,941 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2022
Château Corbin Michotte (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, soft, forward, and easy-drinking, the wine is fully ready to go on release, leaving you with just a hint of cocoa and black raspberries in the finish. This will be enjoyable to drink in its youth. Drink from 2025-2035. 528 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025With a floral character, you find licorice, cherries and espresso at its core. The wine is medium-bodied, a bit oaky and finishes cherries, plums and cocoa. This will be enjoyable to drink in its youth. Drink from 2025-2032. 89-91 Pts. 2,864 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2022
Château Rocher Corbin (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Light bright, forward wine with a simple, albeit, pleasant, cocoa. and red plum finish for early drinking pleasure. Drink from 2025-2031. 958 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025 |
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2021
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fennel, black cherries, espresso and flowers show in the aromatic profile. The palate is medium-bodied, soft fresh and creamy, with a lean to its bright cherry side of the style range. Drink from 2024-2037 921 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Licorice, chocolate, black raspberries and flowers and plums show up on the nose. The wine is soft, forward, medium-bodied, fresh and sweet on the palate, finishing with soft, silky, mineral-edged fruits and leafy herbs in the finish. Drink from 2023-2035. 91-93 1,766 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2021
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Elegant, fresh, and refined, the wine is vibrant, energetic, and almost crisp, with lift to the core of red fruits on mid-palate that carry through to the spice-tinted finish. Drink from 2024-2032. 956 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Roses, black raspberries and cherries fill the nose. Medium-bodied, soft, silky, and fresh, with a nice sweetness to the fruits and just a touch of cocoa and spice on the backend to add complexity to the refined, elegantly-styled wine. This is going to be delicious to taste on release. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc, 13% ABV. The wine was harvested September 23 - October 4. Drink from 2023-2037. 89-91 1,708 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2021
Château Grand Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Plummy, spicy, medium-bodied, light, and already easy-to-drink, the wine finishes with dusty-textures, licorice, cherries and cocoa with espresso beans. Drink from 2024-2034. 518 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Medium-bodied, light, floral and with a leafy green edge to the bright red fruits on the nose and on the medium-bodied, crisp palate. Drink from 2023-2034. 88-90 1,215 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2021
Château Rocher Corbin (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Cranberries, cherries, orange and chocolate nuances are found here in the nose, and on the palate. Forward, this early-drinking wine is going to at its best in its red plum-filled youth. Drink from 2024-2028. 1,056 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024 |
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2021
Château Corbin Michotte (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The nose opens with mushrooms, balsamic, espresso, red fruits and orange peel. Medium-bodied, round and forward, the finish leaves you with a sweet and sour fruit character. This will be in its youth. Drink from 2023-2029. 86-88 1,485 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, licorice, cherries, plums, spice, bay leaves and sage create the complex aromatics. The wine is medium-bodied, silky and fresh. There is a gorgeous vibrancy and purity in the sweet, ripe, red fruits that linger, long after the wine has left your glass. Produced from blending 75% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon, this finesse styled wine is clearly one of the best vintages of Chateau Grand Corbin-Despagne ever produced. Drink from 2024-2045. 3,078 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Very deep in color, the wine pops with its aromatic profile of flowers, wild cherries, blue fruit, licorice, smoke and cocoa. Lush, silky and polished, with velvety tannins and a finish that keeps on going due to all its layers of sweet, vibrant, red pit fruits and seductive textures. This is a nice step up in quality and concentration here. 92-94 Pts 3,195 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2020
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Elegant, fresh and refined, the wine is medium-bodied and focuses on the purity in all of its sweet, ripe red fruits. On the nose, you find a strong, attention-seeking floral note, finishing with silky red fruits, earth, spice, herbs and crushed rocks. The wine blends 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Chateau Corbin continues its run of superb vintages. 92-94 Pts 4,640 Views Tasted Jun 2, 2021 |
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2020
Château Grand Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, silky, fresh and energetic, the supple-textured wine is packed with flowers and sweet, ripe, elegant, red fruits with notes of licorice, dark cocoa and espresso in the endnote. Give it a year or two for the oak to become better integrated. Drink from 2024-2038. 830 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Floral and fresh, the wine is medium-bodied and focused on its sweet, cherries, plums and raspberry charms. Refined and silky, this is the best vintage of Grand-Corbin I have ever tasted. 91-93 Pts 1,641 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2020
Petit Corbin Despagne (St. Émilion)
Licorice, red fruits and flowers greet your nose. On the palate, the wine is soft, fresh, medium-bodied fruity, with a silky, vibrant red berry finish that is perfect for early drinking pleasure. Drink from 2023-2032. 2,256 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023 |
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2020
Château Corbin Michotte (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Dark in color, the wine is medium-bodied, earthy, fruity, round and showing a bit too much oak at the moment. The finish is juicy, savory and a bit strict in the endnote. 86-88 Pts 1,679 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Looking for a superb wine that’s ready to drink today? And most importantly, it sells for a song! Look no further. This supple-textured, ripe, round, beauty is packed with licorice, sweet, ripe, red with black cherries, plums, and chocolate. It’s so easy to drink, I wish I had a second bottle! Drink from 2025-2039. 3,278 Views Tasted Jan 17, 2025This was just great from the barrel and it is even better now that it is bottled. The wine is lush, round, deep, rich and complex. There is depth, freshness and complexity that shines through with all of its layers of deep, red fruits, black cherries, plums, cocoa and wet earth. This is already showing well, but with a few years in the cellar, it is going to be even better. This is the finest vintage of Grand Corbin-Despagne ever produced. Drink from 2024-2036. 4,392 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Floral, with black and blue fruit, wet earth, smoke and licorice, the wine is silky and polished with an elegant nature, leaving with more of that delicious black and blue fruit in the finish. This could become the finest vintage of Grand Corbin-Despagne ever produced. 91-93 Pts 3,754 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2019
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Elegant, silky, refined and fresh, the nose pops with flowers, plums, crushed stone and savory, leafy herbs. Lusciously textured, spicy red fruits with a touch of chocolate hit your palate in all the right ways and stick with you, letting you spend time with all those, sweet ripe fruits. Give it a year or two in the cellar and it's going to be quite a treat. This is in contention for the best vintage of Corbin ever produced. Drink from 2023-2035. 1,886 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022With loads of ripe, elegant, soft, dark, sexy plums, silky tannins, freshness and a fabulous mouth feel, this medium-bodied, finesse-driven wine is already fabulous to taste. This could be the finest vintage of Corbin produced yet. It will be beautiful to taste with just a few years of bottle age, and it will continue to develop and provide pleasure for at least another 15 years or so after that. 3,140 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2019
Château Grand Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, licorice, red fruits and a touch of cocoa create the perfume. Medium-bodied, soft, vibrant and silky, with loads of sweet, ripe, refined cherries and plums on the mid-palate and in the elegantly-styled, fresh, energetic, polished finish. Drink from 2023-2034. 2,024 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Alluring smells of licorice, red fruits, espresso and earth work well here. Medium-bodied, elegant, silky and refined, the wine leaves you with a beautiful sense of purity to the fruit. Give it 5 years or so to age, and this will be an even better wine. 91-93 Pts 3,089 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2019
Château Rocher Corbin (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Soft, polished plums, cherries, cocoa, espresso and plums come through easily on the nose and palate. The wine finishes with loads of ripe, polished fruits and a touch of oak, so give it a year or two in the bottle for everything to integrate and it should be quite the charmer. Drink from 2023-2032. 1,414 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022 |
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2019
Château Corbin Michotte (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With a floral, savory, earthy, edge to the red fruits on the nose and palate, the wine is medium-bodied, and focused on its ripe, vibrant, red berry core of fruits. The finish is light, but, soft, clean and fresh. You can enjoy this on release. Drink from 2022-2032. 1,522 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022 |
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2018
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Elegant, refined, silky and fresh with beautiful purity and symmetry to the fruit. The sweetness in the red pit fruits on the nose, palate and in the finish make a great, lasting impression. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. As I said in my barrel tastings, this is the finest vintage of Corbin produced yet! 2,261 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021With a profundity of color, the wine is fresh, juicy, elegant, ripe and multi-faceted. On the palate and in the finish you find decadent cherries and licorice with lift, length and opulence. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc, reaching 15% ABV but there is no touch of heat or jammy sensations. This is a beauty and it is the best vintage of Corbin I have ever tasted! 92-94 Pts 2,003 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2018
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deep in color, with a soft, polished, plush texture on the palate which creates a nice canvass to enjoy the sweet plums and cherries. This will be easy to enjoy on release and over the next 12 years or so. Drink from 2023-2036. 4,007 Views Tasted Sep 25, 2022Medium-bodied, floral, refined, elegant, silky, plummy and with loads of ripe, sweet cherries, the wine is light on its feet, in a good way. With lift and vibrancy, this finesse styled beauty will be better with just a few years of age. 3,962 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021With a strong floral accent, the wine is silky, polished, sweet, ripe and soft with licorice and black cherries throughout and especially in the finish. 91-93 Pts 5,080 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2018
Château Grand Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deep in color, with a soft, polished, plush texture on the palate which creates a nice canvass to enjoy the sweet plums and cherries. This will be easy to enjoy on release and over the next 12 years or so. Drink from 2023-2036. 1,771 Views Tasted Jul 8, 2022Medium-bodied, elegant, soft, floral and lifted, the red fruits are as sweet as they are silky, finish with licorice, cherries and plums. Give it a few years or so to age and this will be an even better wine. 932 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Medium-bodied, floral, soft and polished, this wine delivers a streak of sweet, red fruits on the mid-palate. Give it a few years or so to age and this will be an even better wine. 91-93 Pts 1,690 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2018
Château Grand Corbin Manuel (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, forward, round textured and already offering fresh, sweet ripe cherries, licorice, smoke and coffee bean. You can drink this with just a few years in the cellar, or less. 89-91 Pts 4,274 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2016
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, elegant and refined, with lovely, fresh, sweet, red fruits, silky tannins and floral aromatics, the wine is bright, refined and finesse driven. There is purity in the fruit, length and energy here. 4,397 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Plums, licorice and floral aromatics with a hint of cocoa on the nose. On the palate, the wine is soft, fresh and more concentrated than usual with a finesse driven, dusty, elegant, sweet, polished, vibrant finish. There is purity in the fruit, length and energy here. The wine was made from blending 89% Merlot and 11% Cabernet Franc, reaching 14.5% ABV and aging in 50% new French oak barrels. For fans of this wine, you should know, this is best wine yet, made from Corbin! 3,266 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2016
Château Grand Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, black raspberry, licorice and espresso scents are all over the place. Medium bodied, but with round, soft, silky textures, there is a nice jolt of sweet plum and cherry notes in the finish that linger. Give it 5 years or so to age, and this will be an even better wine. 1,753 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Flowers, black raspberry and licorice on the nose work perfectly with the medium bodied, fresh, sweet, ripe cherry core of fruits on the palate. Elegant in style. 2,357 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2016
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Elegant, fresh and silky, the wine focuses on its sweet, red cherries and brightness. Medium-bodied and finesse in style, if you like young, red fruits, try it young. If you prefer more softness and earthy nuances, age it for 5 years or so. 3,238 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Silky, mineral-driven fruits, ripe, soft tannins, medium bodied with fresh plums, which carry through from start to finish. 3,974 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2016
Château Grand Corbin Manuel (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, fresh, elegant, red cherry dominate wine, with soft textures, spicy, red fruits and a touch of espresso in the finish. You can drink this with just a few years in the cellar, or less. 2,887 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The sweet floral aromatics, plums and licorice start off the show. From there the wine is juicy, elegant and refined. The tannins on this medium bodied wine are soft. This is an elegant, refined, supple, silky wine that will reward 3-5 years in the cellar. The wine was made from a blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. 3,828 Views Tasted May 21, 2018With notes of truffle, licorice, black plum and rain-soaked earth creating the perfume, this is clearly, the richest, silkiest wine ever made at Corbin. The plush mouth feel has an unmistakable presence of ripe, fresh fruits, purity and length with a touch of clay and minerals in the finish. What I really love about this wine is the darker fruit profile, which can be difficult to find in the sandy soils from this part of the appellation. A blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the wine reached 14.5% ABV and will be aged in 40% new, French oak barrels. After it’s in the bottle, I would not be surprised to see this score at the top end of the range -- and maybe a point higher! 3,889 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2015
Château Grand Corbin Manuel (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Already showing quite well, this blend of 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon produced a medium-bodied, fresh, soft textured, elegant, earthy wine with plums, cherry, espresso, forest floor, flowers and hints of mint leaf on the nose and palate. 2,578 Views Tasted Aug 29, 2021 |
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2015
Château Grand Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Elegant, soft, medium bodied and forward, it is easy to find and enjoy all the sweet, ripe, cherries, plums and black raspberries along with the espresso note on the backend. 3,024 Views Tasted May 21, 2018Soft, refined, polished and medium bodied, the wine is forward and all its sweet, ripe, cherries, plums and black raspberries with a nice shot of espresso should be available on release. 2,877 Views Tasted Mar 12, 2018Medium bodied, soft, polished, and open in character, the wine offers an espresso, plum, black raspberry note from start to finish. 3,301 Views Tasted Nov 22, 2017The best ever from Grand Corbin, this wine offers a delicious profile of licorice, lush, dark, black raspberries and cocoa-covered plums. Sweet, fresh, silky with a bolder depth of flavor than in previous years. 1,923 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2015
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, soft, elegant and charming, the textures are soft, the cherries and plums have a nice, spicy essence to add complexity. The finish shows sweetness to the ripe, red fruits. 3,349 Views Tasted May 21, 2018 |
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2014
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
A quiet nose with earthy, thyme and fresh, sweet, red fruits. Medium bodied, elegant, and soft, with loads of black raspberry and spice in the finish. 4,124 Views Tasted Jul 2, 2017With a nose as charming as estate manager Annabelle Cruse, the violet, licorice and black cherry aromas are a pleasure. On the palate, the wine is medium bodied, fresh, soft and sweet with a black raspberry and thyme finish. A blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the wine reached 13% ABV and will be aged in 40% new, French oak barrels. 90-91 Pts 3,879 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
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2014
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied with an herbal, olive note to the plum character, this wine will drink well young. 86-88 Pts 4,428 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
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2013
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Light in color, the medium bodied, soft, elegant, fresh wine is on the lighter, red fruit side of the style range. This cherry and herb tinged wine will be best on release. 2,245 Views Tasted May 25, 2016The spicy red berry and spearmint bouquet opens to a medium-bodied, fresh, light wine with sweet cherries that continue through to the finish. From a blend of 87% Merlot and 13% Cabernet Franc, the wine reached 13% ABV and is aging in 40% new French oak. 87-89 Pts 2,557 Views Tasted Apr 28, 2014 |
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2012
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Ruby in color, with a smoky, cherry, earthy, leaf and thyme scented nose, the wine is forward, supple and fresh. 3,867 Views Tasted May 15, 2015From 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the wine reached 13.5% ABV. With a nose of licorice and fresh black raspberry jam, the medium-bodied wine is soft, smooth and forward, ending with dark berries and a hint of dust in the finish. 89-91 Pts 3,851 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2012
Château Grand Corbin Manuel (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, easy drinking quaffer, with a soft core of plums, freshness and an open personality that makes this fun to drink in its youth. 3,300 Views Tasted May 15, 2015Medium-bodied with ample notes of licorice, cherry and strawberry wines, the wine ends with sweet, tart and fresh cherries in the finish. 86-89 Pts 3,296 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2012
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied with sweet black cherry fruits, soft tannins and a drying finish. 87-89 Pts 4,297 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Anabelle Cruse is on a roll at Chateau Corbin. In a very difficult year, the wine sports complex aromas of licorice, mint, leaves, oak and fresh red berries. Medium bodied, with soft, round textures and a forward personality, this well priced wine will be delicious on release. 3,150 Views Tasted Nov 17, 2013Corbin has been making better wine since the 2009 vintage. From a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, the wine will be aged in 80% new oak. Medium bodied with soft textures, floral notes, fresh raspberry, licorice and kirsch, this will drink well young. 90-91 Pts 3,027 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2012 |
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2011
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, red berries, herbs and earth, this slightly rustic wine should be better with a year or two in the bottle. 3,513 Views Tasted Nov 17, 2013 |
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2010
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Coffee, licorice, fresh, ripe, black raspberries in the nose. On the palate, the wine is soft, rich and silky, ending with sweet, blackberries and cocoa. This is my favorite vintage of Corbin from Anabelle Cruse yet! 3,911 Views Tasted May 7, 20132010 Corbin Deep colored, mineral driven, licorice, jammy berry, spice and sweet black cherry open to a rich, plush, round, deep wine. This is a big step up for Anabelle Cruse. It’s the best Corbin I have ever tasted. 91-93 Pts 4,213 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
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2010
Château Grand Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Ready to go, this is soft, earthy, medium bodied, elegant and fresh, with a plummy, earthy, cherry filled, silky finish. Drink this over the next 5-8 years. 2,550 Views Tasted Feb 9, 2019 |
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2010
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Easy drinking, elegant and charming, the medium bodied wine shows good color and serves up a healthy dose of soft, spicy, black raspberries, licorice and earth. 4,414 Views Tasted Sep 6, 2014 |
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2010
Château Grand Corbin Manuel (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Read to drink, this medium bodied, light textured charmer offers, fresh red cherries, plums and spice, in an easy to drink and like manner. The wine was produced from a blend of 50% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Franc and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon. 2,838 Views Tasted Dec 1, 2015 |
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2009
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With a floral edge to the sweet cherries, the wine is mature, elegant, soft and fresh. Medium-bodied, with silky tannins, spice and herbs. This is perfect for enjoying now and over the next decade. 3,058 Views Tasted Sep 20, 2019Sensuous textures, a perfume packed with licorice, ripe, black and red cherries, spice and earth, a long, supple, forward, medium/full bodied, elegant, fruit filled finish, along with a fair price made this St. Emilion a winner. 5,399 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2012 |
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2009
Château Grand Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully mature, easy to like, elegantly styled, soft, medium bodied, floral-accented red berry wine for current consumption. 2,017 Views Tasted Feb 14, 2019 |
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2009
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
2009 Grand Corbin Despagne is medium bodied with jammy blackberries, spice, and minerals. The wine offers a round, black cherry finish. 89-91 Pts 4,413 Views Tasted Jun 28, 2010 |
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2009
Château Grand Corbin Manuel (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
A well priced St. Emilion, one of 6 using that incorporates the name Corbin into their moniker, the wine is light ruby in color, offering scents of red berries, earth and spice, medium body and a pleasant, cherry finish. This is a Bordeaux wine to drink on the young side. 2,708 Views Tasted Mar 12, 2012 |
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2009
Château Haut-Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
2009 Haut Corbin, 90% merlot and 10% cabernet franc, is medium bodied wine done in a light style. It offers some plush dark berries in its soft, easy to drink style. 86-88 Pts 3,697 Views Tasted Jun 28, 2010 |
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2008
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Light in color, the medium bodied wine is already showing its truffle, tobacco, thyme, espresso and red fruit character. On the palate, the wine is probably close to mature, with a dusty, crisp, bright, fresh, sweet and tart red berry finish.. 2,261 Views Tasted Sep 17, 201808 Château Corbin. Corbin lies in the farthest north west region of St. Emilion, in clay and sandy soil. This elegantly styled St. Emilion offers a medium bodied wine with a profile of red and black cherries. 89-91 Pts 3,336 Views Tasted Jul 1, 2009 |
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2008
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
About to enter prime time, the medium bodied, wine is soft, polished, fresh, fruity and focused on its sweet, ripe cherry core of fruits, licorice and wet earth. 4,552 Views Tasted Dec 13, 2017 |
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2008
Château Haut-Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
2008 Château Haut Corbin, with its black raspberry nose, elegant style, and medium body, provides a nice, early drinking St. Emilion. 86-89 Pts 2,715 Views Tasted Jul 1, 2009 |
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2006
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deeply colored, with licorice, blackberries, earth and cocoa aromas, this strong value priced Bordeaux wine offers a lot of bang for the buck with its layers of sweet ripe fruit and round, opulent, early drinking charm and character. 6,779 Views Tasted Oct 31, 2011 |
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2006
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Mature, this ready to drink charmer opens with truffle, wet forest floor and hints of plum in the nose. Silky in texture, but short, and slightly dusty in the finish with an olive and herbal tone, there is no reason to age this any longer. 4,766 Views Tasted May 25, 2016 |
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2005
Château Haut-Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Drinking great today, licorice, black cherries and wet forest floor scents open to a plush, soft, round, easy to like St. Emilion for not a lot of money. 3,104 Views Tasted Aug 12, 2013 |
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2005
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
A nice value St. Emilion in today's world with its concentrated style, ripe dark berry, licorice and earthy personality. The wine has the ability to age and improve. 4,225 Views Tasted May 31, 2012 |
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2005
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With a developed nose showing its tobacco, earth, forest and leafy character, the wine is medium bodied, elegantly styled with a cherry and wild strawberry finish. 3,308 Views Tasted Jun 28, 2015 |
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2001
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully mature, with a smoky, tobacco, cigar box, floral and cherry nose, with a touch of herbs. The wine is medium bodied, soft, refined and at the perfect stage of development for maximum enjoyment. 4,709 Views Tasted Mar 19, 2017 |
