Margaux · vintage 2000
Château Durfort Vivens 2000
Ageing potentialAn exceptional bottle that should reach its peak around 2010.
Why this vintage
- The 2000 vintage in MargauxAfter a wet spring, a dry summer and a perfect September gave the decade's first great vintage: dense, complete, with very long aging potential.
- Ageing potentialAn exceptional bottle that should reach its peak around 2010.
The 2000 vintage in Margaux
Vintage benchmark: 96/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: After a wet spring, a dry summer and a perfect September gave the decade's first great vintage: dense, complete, with very long aging potential.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Margaux. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
DURFORT-VIVENS 2000 exhibits a nice garnet-red colour full of intensity and deepness. Its complex bouquet reveals a very good and rich aromatic structure. This vintage is a reflection of the noble terroir. The charming smooth mouth is coupled with the silky tannins. The density and strength of this wine makes it one that has excellent ageing potential.
Blend of the 2000 vintage
- 65 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 30 % Merlot
- 5 % Cabernet Franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2000 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 83 % cabernet sauvignon, 13 % merlot, 3 % cabernet franc, 1 % muscadelle — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2000 sheet
- 43 hl/haYield
- 25 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Harvest dates: Merlot from 25 to 28 September; Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon from 28 September to 7 October. The final blend and barrelling took place at the beginning of January 2001.
Ageing
Château DURFORT-VIVENS was aged in barrels for 20 months, 40 % of which were new. Natural egg whites were used for fining in the barrels.
Terroir
Situated in the communes of Margaux, Cantenac and Soussans, the Durfort-Vivens vineyard puts down its roots on deep and particularly poor gravel rises. These gravels were deposited by the successive beds of the Garonne in the Quaternary era. This great terroir gives Cabernet Sauvignon an early and optimal ripeness, allowing it to express fully the finesse and silkiness of its tannins, the guarantee of the freshness and elegance characteristic of the great Margaux wines. At Château Durfort-Vivens, the constant search for a natural balance between the vine and its terroir is reflected in traditional cultivation practices. In 2012, 80% of the vineyard was farmed biodynamically and 20% under integrated production
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Texts and documents 2000
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 28, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.