1995 Château Durfort-Vivens

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 87.6 points

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  12/28/2022 - Hickey987 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Smooth easy wine especially for how old it is. Great dry cedar flair up front with subdued finish. Not as complex as I would expect for such an old wine, but still very good.

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  1/20/2021 - pavel_p wrote: 87 Points

  Perfect bottle with in neck fill. Pnp at home. I only rarely get to drink a Durfort Vivens. This 95 is a decent wine and would not rate it as harshly as the most recent reviewer but it is certainly a wine already on a gentle downward slope. Clear garnet, transparent rim but no browning. Fairly muted aromatics with forest floor, cedar and a remaining touch of fruit. Lacking concentration and refinement on the palate while the sandy, medium (-) tannins and the acidity are still alive and kicking. A wine that works hence better with a meal than on its own at this stage. Short finish. A somewhat rustic old school Bdx and doubt it was ever a great wine but will for sure not improve from here so drink up.

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  1/1/2020 - mazik wrote: 86 Points

  Cork destroyed by my attempts to extract it so it got decanted. Pretty much over the hill: fruit has almost entirely been replaced by cedar and cigarbox and other dusty secondary flavors. Tannins still there, though. Best with the cheese course, which brought out some blackberry. This is a deuxieme cru of Margaux, but it was hard to tell what grapes went into it. Much more interesting than the other red John had around though, a Hungarian Szekszard wine that seemed to be plum/prune and nothing beyond.

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  5/2/2014 - cab blends wrote: 91 Points

  AHA Heart's Delight Vintners Dinner - Chateau Margaux (Washington DC): This was the first year of making the wine back on the actual estate. (the estate has a tumultuous past and was the fruit in Chateau Margaux for a number of years). This is quite drinkable now with smooth and light tannins (5/10). SOme tobacco and cedar on the nose.

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  4/26/2010 - Fur in the glass wrote: 85 Points

  A heavy, plummy smell was at the start then moved to a lighter berry aroma with some soy and wood coming up even later. It had a vegetal quality with some fruit coming up front later and some spice on a good finish. There was a light quality to it but it wasn't that refreshing, and it was balanced but still had something slightly lacking. A smooth, silky middle presented about a third of the way through the bottle. Probably would have done better with food.

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