Community Tasting Notes 13

• vagrantone Likes this wine: 91 points

  November 30, 2020 - Top neck fill level. Cork in good condition.
  Not decanted.
  Very youthful hue; more like a 10-15 year old Cab blend.
  Classic Medoc nose tobacco and earthy notes as well as faint plum notes. Slight herbal notes in the best sense possible; adding complexity without falling into bellpepper category.
  bright acidity, almost fully resolved tannins, surprisingly nice texture. Spicy finish with cigar box aromas. This makes for a great food pairing wine, which - after all- what it is all about.
  Quite long finish riding the acidity, spices and cedary notes.
  Not going to improve...

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• JackCMac Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 28, 2018 - beautiful color. ripe old cab nose. nice finish with medium weight & length.

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• vagrantone Likes this wine: 88 points

  September 16, 2016 - Surprising! At first very hard and thin, quite unyielding
  I chose not to decant but to let it evolve in the glass. This wine has quite a bit of volatile acidity; most likely from brettanomyces. However, as the wine evolved, some of the off-aromas dissipated and more traditional tertiary aromas developed: earthy, tobacco; could use more complexity

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• Bill Bucklew wrote: 90 points

  November 29, 2015 - Similar to the last bottle in that it had a great mix of classic secondary elements and a modicum of fruit that is still hanging on. Definitely drink up, but I was slightly more happy with this bottle than the last,

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• Bill_wine wrote: flawed

  October 30, 2014 - Bottle left too long - gone off

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1970
• 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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• In Cellars 39 (57%)
• Consumed 30 (43%)

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