France · Bourg & Blaye
The registry places Château Durfort-Vivens in Bordeaux, France. Available verified sources do not support a fuller editorial profile.
World of Wine records Château Durfort-Vivens in Bordeaux, France. The available verified sources do not support a reliable account of the producer's history, vineyards, cellar, or wine style, so this profile intentionally carries no Atlas article.
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In the early 1990s, when Lucien Lurton began distributing his classified Médoc châteaux among his ten children, Gonzague took over Durfort-Vivens. Lucien had spent three decades assembling one of the most extensive classified-growth holdings in Bordeaux; the distribution handed each child an estate and the weight of a 1855 ranking. Gonzague was in his early thirties. Within the decade, he had begun pulling out underperforming blocks, remapping the estate's gravel beds, and stripping the conventional spray programme from the vineyard calendar. By the time Demeter awarded biodynamic certification, Durfort-Vivens had become one of only a handful of classified Médoc growths to farm without synthetic inputs — a shift that Gonzague had begun not with a consultant or a press release but with the decision to stop spraying herbicides between the vine rows.