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Wine Description
The Story
The second generation of the Niepoort family, in the late 19th century, had the fortunate idea of buying from a german glass factory in Oldenburg about 4000 glass balloons (in the form of old apothecaries’ bottles) of dark-green glass with varying capacities from 8 to 11 litres. Eduard Karel Jacob van der Niepoort died early and it was his son, Eduard Marius van der Niepoort, Dirk’s grandfather, who gave purpose to the demijohns by bottling th...
Wine Information
The second generation of the Niepoort family, in the late 19th century, had the fortunate idea of buying from a german glass factory in Oldenburg about 4000 demijohns of dark-green glass with varying capacities from 8 to 11 litres. Eduard Karel Jacob van der Niepoort died early and it was his son, Eduard Marius van der Niepoort, Dirk’s grandfather, who gave purpose to the demijohns by bottling the best wines of the 1931 harvest, thus creating ...
Vintage 1952
Portugal’s 1952 wine vintage was a very solid, concentrated year in the Douro Valley and across northern and central table wine regions.
While 1952 was not declared as a general Vintage Port year—falling squarely between the classical declarations of 1950 and 1955—the warm, dry growing season yielded small berries with intense phenolic concentration and high sugar levels. Several historic Port houses took advantage of the harvest's natural ...
