Margaux · vintage 2009
Château Durfort Vivens 2009
Ageing potential20 years and beyond
Why this vintage
- 93/100 from James Sucklingand 2 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2009 vintage in MargauxA sun-drenched season from start to finish gave opulent, fleshy wines, immediately appealing yet built for the cellar.
- Ageing potential20 years and beyond
Critic scores
- James Suckling93
- Wine Enthusiast91
- Wine Spectator90
The 2009 vintage in Margaux
Vintage benchmark: 98/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A sun-drenched season from start to finish gave opulent, fleshy wines, immediately appealing yet built for the cellar.
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
This magnificent terroir allows optimal, early ripening of the Cabernet Sauvignon grape, giving full expression to the finesse and silkiness of the tannins, resulting in the freshness and elegance characteristic of a great Margaux.
Blend of the 2009 vintage
- 70 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 25 % Merlot
- 5 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2009 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 2009 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 29 hl/haYield
- 25 yrsVine age
- 120,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
The new facilities were designed to optimize plot selection and the management of vinification. Fermentation in small concrete vats for plot-by-plot tracking.
Ageing
In cask for 16 to 20 months, 45% of them new.
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 2009
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots, labels. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
Sheet checked on September 21, 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.