2015 Château Durfort-Vivens

Community Tasting Notes (32) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  12/10/2023 - dbkitc wrote: 90 Points

  (at Elkridge Club - Baltimore). This was a good but slightly muted bottle that showed some swampy fruit to go along with a soft personality. It started to come together after 60 minutes but could not continue to follow the evolution. Could improve with time - would love to see the mid-palate flesh out and become more defined. (90+?)

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  11/21/2023 - Irish_Wine Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nicely perfumed nose with floral notes, blackcurrant, cedar and vanilla. Starting to show some development via leather aromas. Medium bodied and structured with fresh acidity. Good length. Needs more time.

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  8/31/2023 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 96 Points

  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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  8/28/2023 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Reading my note from two years ago, I have to believe that my palate is just "off." All I am getting tonight on PnP is vanilla in the nose and excessive oak in the mouth, to the exclusions of anything else. Since it is most likely me and not the wine, not rated.
  
  Next day, after sitting open in the stoppered bottle for 18 hours, the vanilla has largely resolved and so has much of the oak--though this is still notably oaky. At this point, if you give it plenty of time to air, I'd say 5-12-16-8: 91/100.

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  8/19/2023 - Counsel71 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Typical Margaux. Nice aroma and easy to drink.

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