Chateau DURFORT-VIVENS owes its name to the Durfort de Duras, a powerful family in the South-West of France that came to Margaux in the fourteenth century. In 1824, the Viscount of Viven’s name was added to that of Durfort. The estate was at the height of it’s fame: the 1844 vintage sold for more than any of the other Second Crus in the Margaux appellation.