Chateau Durfort-Vivens - Margaux - Bordeaux - 2004 - (Classic, Classified 2nd Growth, Ager, Food Wine) - $36 - An absolute stunner at this price or any price under $100. I'd seek this wine out on Wine Searcher myself, if you don't. Deep garnet color with a medium garnet rim. Classic BDX nose of crushed wet gravel, and turned compost with ripe plum, cassis and curranty cherry blossoms and rose petals. Ripe and soft on the entry, yet always Bordeaux. Moderate tannins with moderate+ acid and a balanced-medium+ length to the finish. The fruit was equally well developed on the palette with obvious Merlot ripeness and structure traits. It was my first experience with this 2nd Growth from Margaux, and I was more than impressed with it's poetic nature.
