Château Corbin

History

Several legends circulate around this flagship estate in Saint-Emilion. One of them Corbin in the 15th century. During the Hundred Years War between the French and the English, an English Prince would have held the land on which the domain is installed. The building was then used by this Prince to withdraw far from the fights. This was the foundations of what we know today.

In the centuries that followed, the property passed from hand to hand between different lords. These will bring their touches, the property keeps good memories of it. memories. We can see a magnificent dovecote, a beautiful guest house and a tasting room. a tasting room... All these rooms date back to the 16th and 17th centuries.

In the 18th century, it is the famous castle that is built with a neoclassical style. The old parts have been preserved and the new building completes perfectly the whole. The estate then officially became the Château Corbin.

If this one was the property of several lords over the centuries, the situation changed with the arrival of the the arrival of the Cruse family in 1924. Since that year, the castle still belongs to the same family the same family with the 4th generation at its head who bears the name of Anabelle Cruse. Accompanied by her husband Sébastien Bardinet, this trained oenologist has been managing the vineyard since 1999. since 1999 and took the reins in 2007...

A breathtaking precision

Year after year, she works tirelessly to improve her production. She seeks with precision and rigor to make elegant and powerful wines while maintaining the purity of the fruit. To reach her goal, she renews her plots to find the best combination of the best combination between the soil and the grape varieties, she has built a new cellar dedicated to the dedicated to the plot of land... In short, Anabelle Cruse Bardinet knows that the challenge is great, but she takes it in her stride, with the conviction that she will succeed. with the conviction of succeeding. Wine is not new to her, she has been immersed in it She has been immersed in it since she was a child, living the harvest with the previous generations. It is these moments that she takes pleasure in recounting, remembering a time that made her love the vineyard and the place.

One understands this love when one sees what she undertakes at Château Corbin. On this vineyard of about 13 hectares, Anabelle lives each vintage with passion, always making always making decisions in order to respect her terroir. Her vineyard is composed of merlot (70%), cabernet-franc (24%) and malbec (6%) is cared for with the greatest attention. The selection of the grapes is drastic because it is one of the keys to elaborate a great wine. If satisfaction, the grapes will go directly to the production of the second wine second wine: Divin de Château Corbin.

The first wine is remarkably precise with a beautiful finesse and a long finish in the mouth. and a long finish in the mouth. The last vintages have rightly demonstrated that Château Corbin had largely its place in the classification of Saint-Emilion as a Grand Cru Classé. Cru Classé.