2020 Château Durfort-Vivens
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Sunday, February 25, 2024 - Château Durfort-Vivens Margaux GCC 2020 (13.5% ABV)
(88% CS / 12% M)
To anticipate it: The wine is already close to shutting down. In contrast to the 19, which I tasted 17 months ago, I am almost too late with the 20. The very dark purple-coloured wine (already) has none of the enormous nasal fruitiness that first impressed me so much about its predecessor. It has also largely lost its primary fruit on the palate. There are certainly notes of cassis, blackberries, black cherries and then also raspberries and hints of juniper, but the acidity evidently overpowers all of this, were it not for the ultra-long finish.
This ultra-long finish on roses, violets and something almost narcissistic, carried by extremely finely polished tannins, as if one had bitten into these flowers and now realised their "flower flesh" in retrospect, a finish in which fruit notes, e.g. dried plums and dried black cherries, are revealed again.
This will be a powerful Margaux one day, in contrast perhaps to the rather playful 19, but I would give it a rest in the cellar over the next few years (even if the notes on the CT do not show any signs of imminent closure until recently).
At the moment 92-93, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were 97/98 one day...
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