Château Le Chemin

The story of “Le Chemin”, which means The Way, follows one that began several centuries ago in a neighbouring vineyard in Saint Emilion. In 1996, François Despagne, a member of the family’s seventh generation of winemakers, took over the torch at Grand Corbin-Despagne.
Three years earlier, in 1993, his parents, the Despagne-Rapins, had acquired Le Chemin, in Pomerol. They passed it down to their son, François Despagne, in 2008.
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The “Graves de Pomerol” (a part of Pomerol with high gravel content in the soils) gives wines that are silky, creamy and with elegant tannins. On the palate, they are longer rather than broad.

From the pruning to the harvesting, each necessary vineyard task (de-suckering, de-budding, removal of double shoots, de-leafing, crop thinning and shoot thinning) is performed in such a way that the highest quality grapes can be produced each year.
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Before the harvest, the berries are sampled on the vine, firstly by tasting and then by laboratory analysis. This enables us to determine when they will be perfectly ripe and ready to pick. While being manually harvested, the bunches are sorted in the vineyard. They are then sorted again at the cellars before being de-stemmed. The berries of the batches brought in from the two plots making up the vineyard are transferred to temperature-control...