Château

Château Haut-Corbin

shah-TOH oh kor-BAN
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A Grand Cru Classé of the Corbin quarter from 1969 to 2006, bought by the insurer SMABTP in 1986 and merged in 2012 into Château Grand Corbin, which took its vines and its place.

The château

Haut-Corbin was a property of 13 hectares in the Corbin quarter of Saint-Émilion, and a Grand Cru Classé in the classifications of 1969, 1986, 1996 and 2006. In 1986 it was bought by the Groupe SMABTP, the mutual insurer of the building and public works trades, and it was the first piece of what became a larger estate. On December 31, 2010 the group bought the 15 hectares of Château Grand Corbin, held for 50 years by the Giraud family, and the 4 hectares of Château Le Jurat next door.

The 3 shared a past, stood side by side and sat on similar soil, and in 2012 the INAO allowed them to be run under the single name of Château Grand Corbin. That name, not Haut-Corbin, went into the classification of September 6, 2012 as a Grand Cru Classé, with 28.5 hectares of classified vines. Haut-Corbin ended there as a wine of its own; its vines carry on in Grand Corbin.

At a glance

Appellation
Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Terroir of Saint-Émilion →
Commune
Saint-Émilion, in the Corbin quarter
Classification
Grand Cru Classé, 1969 to 2006; not in the list of 2012 under its own name
Last owners
Groupe SMABTP, from 1986
Vineyard
13 hectares in 1986

Sources

Institutions
Conseil des Vins de Saint-Émilion, press kit of the classification of 2012, with the lists of 1955 to 2012; Conseil des Vins de Saint-Émilion, the 1969 classification; Association des Grands Crus Classés de Saint-Émilion, Château Grand Corbin; Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité, the Saint-Émilion classification of 2012, the list of September 6, 2012
Its own publications
Château Grand Corbin, the history

Revised October 18, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château Haut-Corbin was a Grand Cru Classé of Saint-Émilion until the classification of 2006; since 2012 it has been part of Château Grand Corbin.

Saint-Émilion Grand Cru is an appellation, not a rank. A wine may carry it and hold no place at all in the Saint-Émilion classification.

Source: INAO, Saint-Émilion grand cru

Private

By invitation only.

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