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Wine Description
The Story
Late Bottled Vintage Port is from a single year. The wine ages 4-6 years in old oak casks (opposed to Vintage that ages 2-3). LBV fills the gap between the Rubies and the Vintage Ports since a Ruby Port should be drunk quite young and a great Vintage Port may need 15 to 20 years to really open up and show its splendour. This led to the idea in the 1960s to age the wine 4 to 6 years in large casks before bottling it, thereby producing a wine wi...
Wine Information
Niepoort produced: ...1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,2001,2003, 2004 and 2005.
Vinification
The grapes for Niepoort 2007 LBV came from selected parcels of vineyards in the Cima Corgo region of Douro Valley.
The grapes were trodden in "lagares" and later the Port was matured in large wooden vats at our lodges in Vila Nova de Gaia.
At Niepoort the tradition is to bottle the LBV four years after the harvest. According to Dirk Niepoort, ...
