Château Grand Corbin: Tasting & Drinking
The wines of the Corbin secteur are never going to have the richest or most imposing style in the St Emilion appellation. The land here is, regardless of its noble heritage and grand profusion of vineyards, characterised by soils of wind-blown sand, with little of the gravel, clay or limestone that marks the great terroirs of St Emilion. The fruit that grows on the sandy terroirs of this appellation is always at risk of being griddled by the reflected heat from the dry sandy soils, and this comes through in some vintages of Château Grand Corbin that I have tasted. The 2015, for example, one of the more attractive vintages in recent years, does still have a little grilled cherry note to it, and the 2012 feels a little disjointed and baked.
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