Durfort-Vivens ...
A name, the fusion of two illustrious lineages ...

The Durfort Duras, knights from Quercy in the eleventh century, and lords of Duras after a union with the descendant of Bertrand de Goth (now Pope Clement V), entered Margaux in the fourteenth century where they erected a stronghold.

In 1450, Thomas de Durfort becomes the lord of Margaux.

Four centuries later, Viscount Robert Labat Vivens, a friend of Montesquieu and famous for his research work on the congestion and siltation of the Garonne and Gironde, becomes, by inheritance, the owner of the domain of the lords of Durfort , to which he associates his name ... castle Durfort-Vivens was born ... We are in 1824.

Will follow a prosperous nineteenth century. Ranked in 1787 by Thomas Jefferson just after the castles Latour, Lafitte and Margaux, the 1844 vintage will sell for more than its peers. This classification, taking note of the positions acquired by these wines, announced the official one of 1855.

Proven quality and approved, since in 1937 it is bought by Chateau Margaux, whose main shareholder is none other than the Lurton family ...

In 1961 Durfort-Vivens became the entire property of Lucien Lurton, which he sold in 1992 to his son Gonzague.