CHÂTEAU GRAND CORBIN-DESPAGNE
2021 Grand Cru Saint Emilion
| Grapes | Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, Merlot |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Bordeaux |
| Other | Certified Organic |
| Sub-district | Saint Emilion & Satellites |
| Village | Saint Emilion |
| Classification | Grand Cru |
| ABV | 13.4% |
This is showing aromas of walnuts, black berry fruit, chocolate orange and tea leaves. It’s sleek and creamy with fine, polished tannins, a medium body and excellent length. Coming together nicely. From organically grown grapes. Drink after 2024. Rating: 92 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (Jul 2024)
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We offer free nationwide delivery on all orders over £150 (excluding Highlands & Islands). Express Delivery options also available.This is an estate that I have great admiration for, and it is delivering a taut finesse in 2021, and although it dips in the mid palate, you'll find attractive brambled fruit and an earthy, authentically felt take on the vintage. 10% amphora for ageing, 19hl/h, organic farming. Thomas Duclos and Stétphane Totoundji consultants to this estate owned by 7th generation winemaker Francois Despagne who is celebrating 210 years in the family with this vintage. Drinking range: 2026 - 2040 Rating: 91 Jane Anson, Decanter (Mar 2024)
The 2021 Grand Corbin Despagne turned out beautifully. It offers up inky dark fruit, mocha, licorice, spice and new leather. Dense and creamy, with notable persistence, the 2021 is very nicely done. There's a bit of an oak imprint, but it works well here. Drinking range: 2026 - 2036 Rating: 92 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Feb 2024)
The 2021 Grand Corbin Despagne has an attractive bouquet with blackberry, wild strawberry, cedar and rose petal scents. The palate is medium-bodied and tensile with grainy tannins, a touch of flint and graphite, and some hardness on the finish at the moment. Drinking range: 2025 - 2034 Rating: 87 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Feb 2024)
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne
Unusual in Bordeaux is to find the family that gave an estate its name – or, in this case, part of its name – still in situ but, at Château Grand Corbin-Despagne, François Despagne is the latest in a line of Despagnes going back to Louis Despagne who purchased some vines here in 1812. The Corbin estate had been, in antiquity, a vast estate to rival neighbouring Château Figeac and counted the Black Prince amongst its owners, but was divided and sub-divided over the years such that several estates have Corbin in their name. The Despagne family gradually accumulated more vineyard and, by 1852, it had reached its current 26ha. The vineyards are in the north-west corner of the St Emilion appellation, some distance from most of the famous châteaux, but near to Château Cheval Blanc. They are planted to 75% Merlot and 24% Cabernet Franc with the remaining 1% being small plantings of Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec. The vineyards are in the process of conversion to organic viticulture.
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