Community Tasting Notes 20

• calypse Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 12, 2024 - Stunning nose. Sweet, rich yet elegant fruit on the palate, which remains light and dancing. Spicy, rather light-footed, accompanied by beautifully integrated tannins. Still a bit young but already quite impressive. Very fine!
  93+

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• Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 10, 2024 - “And Now For Something Completely Different”
  
  The title of a Monty Python film, it could well be Gonzague Lurton’s motto (perhaps it is?). He doesn’t seem to give a hoot about critical acclaim, never does anything like anyone else, and this wine is another two fingered salute to conformity.
  
  The nose is arresting – fascinating, in fact. I’m more keen on what’s in the glass as a rule, but this one is certainly worth spending time over. Very perfumed at first, with violets and plums, then something which to me said eucalyptus, before some brambly fruit, then some elderberry, lavender and blueberry. Light but very strong, I could smell it from across the room, but such incredible complexity!
  
  The attack is bright and fresh, very typical of a biodynamic wine, bone-dry cassis and plums to the fore, very reminiscent of a Roches Neuves. Then midpalate it veers off into black cherry flavours, full of energy and still very taut, before hightailing it to the skies with a blend of acidic raspberry and cinnamon, leaving an aftertaste of crisp blackcurrant and typical Margaux dustiness.
  
  That all probably reads as odd as it was – but the sensation post-sip is of enormous pleasure. It’s a wine that pirouettes dangerously between excessive acidity and perfect balance, but for now at least, the latter wins the day.
  
  Certainly one of the more weirdly wonderful wines I have tasted this year, it reminded me strongly of Closeries des Moussis, rather than Clos Du Jaugueyron, with its uncompromising refusal to conform. I can well understand that this is not to everybody’s taste – lovers of Labégorce-type wines would not like it. I loved it. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some bottle variation, I’m not 100% sure that it will age well, but I’m happy to take a punt on it anyway and say that it will turn into a really outstanding wine. 94 pts for now, possibly 96 in the future.
  
  Thinking back to the 2008 tasted recently, there is a definite resemblance, but the 2016 just pushes the boundaries further.

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• fussyeater wrote: 94 points

  October 25, 2023 - Vibrant ruby red in colour. Pot pourri plum and cassis on the powdery nose. Silky tannins with great energy and purity of fruit dialed to 11. Great balance. Truly lovely.

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• AJCM Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 3, 2023 - Haut-Bages Liberal Winery

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• watcheslover Likes this wine: 95 points

  August 31, 2023 - Little vertical from Durfort-Vivens yesterday with my colleagues: 2022 in sample, 2021 untasted.
  1) 2020 98.2/100
  2) 2019 98/100
  3) 2018 97.4/100
  4) 2022 97.1/100
  5) 2015 95.8/100
  6) 2016 95.2/100
  7) 2017 93.4/100

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Pro Reviews 10

Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Château Durfort-Vivens
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Margaux
• UPC Codes 015643548581, 3453523111086, 3453523111109, 3468173163163, 3511060930901, 3760023872394, 5051559038735, 649185026797, 649944190592

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• In Cellars 855 (88%)
• Consumed 107 (11%)

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