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Chateau Durfort-Vivens2010

RED WINE

PUBLIC
February 2025
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Chateau Durfort-Vivens label
Organic
  • Producer Chateau Durfort-Vivens
  • Blend 4% Cabernet Franc
    74% Cabernet Sauvignon
    22% Merlot
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Margaux
  • UPC 0 15643 49180 1

Reviews

James Suckling 91-92

A chewy red, with blackberry and blueberry character and polished tannins. Full, with a solid core of fruit. Serious finish. Balanced and attractive.

by JS, James Suckling , 2011

Wine Spectator 91

Rather briary, with an energetic feel to the crushed blackberry, loganberry and mulberry fruit, laced with bay leaf and iron, and backed by a long, perfumy finish that offers good latent grip. Best from 2014 through 2027.

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2013

Vinous Media 93

The 2010 Durfort-Vivens has impressive intensity on the nose with scents of blackberry, cedar, allspice and graphite, so that it develops and almost Pauillac-like personality with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with fine delineation and acidity. This completely shades preceding vintages of the decade, not a powerful Margaux and yet very well balanced with admirable purity on the finish. This is drinking supremely well at this moment but should give another 15-20 years of drinking pleasure.

by NM, Vinous Media , 2022

Wine Enthusiast 93

An ugly duckling at en primeur time, this has since blossomed into a wine that is structured, tending toward severity. Yet it also has richness in the form of layered black fruit, with smooth wood influence and tight acidity on the finish. It's a wine for long-term aging.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2013

Technical Details

Harvest

The harvest took place over a record period of 21 days with 12 days of actual picking. This was due to the ideal conditions that enabled us to take our time and pick each plot at perfect ripeness, thereby maximizing the already very high potential that had been revealed by tests before the harvest. The alternating warm, sunny days and cool nights favoured the completion of the ripening process and the breaking down of the grape skins, ensuring good extraction in the vats.
Merlot: 30 September to 7 October
Cabernet franc: 12 September
Cabernet Sauvignon: 1 to 20 October
Average yield: 42 hL/ha

Tasting notes

The colour is a bright, intense, dark purple with glints of violet. The dense, complex bouquet offers a harmonious combination of notes of minerals, spices, very ripe dark fruit, liquorice, incense and white lilies. On the palate, the attack is smooth and dense. There is a remarkable balance between minerality and sweetness. The wine's power is steady and wellstructured.
This exceptional vintage has a full-bodied, distinguished, elegant character. Due its balance and complexity, this is a wine that will improve for age for many years, and provide a subtle accompaniment to many fine dishes.

Technical specifications

A.O.C: Margaux
Classification: Second Grand Cru Classe in 1855
Area: 65 hectares of which 55 are vines
Soil: Deep gravel from the Quaternary period (Gunz and Mindel) with a sand/clay matrix
Density of planting: 6.600 to 8.300 vines/hectare
Vat room: wooden and concrete vats with capacities that enable each parcel to be vinified separately.
Barrels: Bordeaux type barrels made from fine grain oak from the forests of central France. Wood selected from forests and degrees of toasting to Durfort-Vivens' specifications in collaboration with the coopers.
Owner: Gonzague Lurton
Director: Jerome Heranva