Château Durfort Vivens 2024

Critic scores

• James Suckling94-95
• Vinous92-94
• Decanter94
• Wine Advocate89-91

The 2024 vintage in Margaux

Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)

Vintage character: A rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.

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

"With its great drinkability and silky texture,

Château Durfort-Vivens 2024 seduces with its

juicy blackberry notes and floral touch of violet.

It is a vintage of immediate elegance, which

can be enjoyed from its youngest age." Gonzague Lurton

Blend of the 2024 vintage

Merlot (5%)

Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2024 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 83 % cabernet sauvignon, 13 % merlot, 3 % cabernet franc, 1 % muscadelle.

Figures from the 2024 sheet

• 120,000 bottlesProduction

Winemaking

Plot-by-plot vinification.

Alcoholic fermentation with

native yeasts.

One pump-over per day

for gentle extraction.

21 days of alcoholic

and malolactic fermentation.

No additives throughout the

vinification phase.

Ageing

18 months of ageing:

70% in new barrels

30% in TAVA amphorae

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