Chateau Rocher Corbin Montagne-Saint-Emilion 2018 NO20230927 sparkling profile

sparkling profile

and the wine goes to bottle unfined

aged in a mix of pièce and demi-muid with only 10–15% new oak—letting fruit and terroir dominate

and the salt wind does the rest

Chateau Rocher Corbin Montagne-Saint-Emilion 2018 NO20230927 sparkling profileRocher Corbin has been in the Durand family for four generations, and Philippe Durand farms its single ten hectare block organically on the highest hill in Montagne Saint Emilion. Up here the vines are old, with more than a chunk over eighty years and a rare patch of pre phylloxera Merlot said to be around 150. He works with a light touch: hand harvesting, wild yeast fermentation, minimal sulfur. The 2018 is mostly Merlot with Cabernet Franc, and it