Margaux · vintage 2013
Château Durfort Vivens 2013
Ageing potential20 years and beyond
Why this vintage
- The 2013 vintage in MargauxCoulure, mildew, then rain during the harvest: a light vintage, ready to drink.
- Ageing potential20 years and beyond
The 2013 vintage in Margaux
Vintage benchmark: 78/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Coulure, mildew, then rain during the harvest: a light vintage, ready to drink.
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
Château Durfort-Vivens 2013 thus expresses a beautiful concentration of red fruit, shaded by the very elegant freshness of floral (lilac, violet) and mineral notes. On the palate, connoisseurs will appreciate the finesse and freshness of the great Margaux thanks to a silky texture, well balanced and long, on notes of red fruit underpinned by nuances of spice (Sichuan pepper) and tobacco leaf.
Blend of the 2013 vintage
- 82 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 17 % Merlot
- 1 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2013 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 2013 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 32 hl/haYield
- 25 yrsVine age
- 120,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
The team conducted fermentations at low temperatures with short maceration periods for the young-vine lots that had suffered from the summer drought. More intense and longer extractions on the best lots produced a fine richness, both aromatic and on the palate.
Ageing
Château Durfort-Vivens 2013 was aged in barrel for 18 months, with a proportion of 50% new casks.
Food pairings
Pair with rib of beef, duck breast, game, cheese.
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 2013
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Visuals
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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.