Joseph is the son of Marc Colin, and the younger brother of Pierre-Yves Colin.

In 1993, at the age of 19, Joseph began working full-time at Domaine Marc Colin. For the next ten years Joseph worked alongside his father and older brother until Pierre-Yves left Marc Colin in 2003 to create his own Domaine – Domaine Joseph Colin

Joseph effectively started his own domaine in 2017 with approximately 6 ha of vines from the original Domaine Marc Colin