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Manage Subscriptions1978 Château Durfort-Vivens
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- Bordeaux
- Médoc
- Margaux
Community Tasting Notes 12
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_water.into.wine_ wrote: 94 points
April 2, 2019 - No formal note. But an excellent wine. Part of their late release and recroked series. Fantastic condition and so much life for a 40 year old wine. There is some fruit remaining and lots of nice secondary aromas. Excellent value. Drank to celebrate Shreyas and Christina promotions.
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Prinsen wrote: 93 points
May 12, 2017 - Tobacco, leather, coffee. Smooth, silky, long lasting taste. Very good wine
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pifcho wrote: flawed
March 31, 2015 - Argh - when I picked up the bottle I noticed the cork was already in the bottle. The wine was quite maderized but somehow drinkable. I chose to pour it down the drain.
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Prinsen wrote: 92 points
February 2, 2013 - Very good nose of old Margaux when it is best, farmyard, leather. Not many tanins left, well structured but not as complex as Brane Cantenac in same year.
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Prinsen wrote: 92 points
September 15, 2012 - Tasted together with Brane Cantenac 1978 and 1998. The smell was a little bit more simple and less complex than the Brane Cantenac 78, but still very good with notes of leather, cigarbox, earth. The taste is very smooth, not many tanins left and you do not doubt that it is an old Margaux. Very worth drinking for the next couple of years
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By Richard Jennings
5/1/2008 (link) 92 points(Château Durfort-Vivens) Mature blackfruit and leather nose; good, mature, blackfruit, leather and tobacco palate; medium finish
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1978
- Type Red
- Producer Château Durfort-Vivens
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- SubRegion Médoc
- Appellation Margaux
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- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 52 (71%)
- Consumed 21 (29%)
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- AppellationMargaux
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