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Wine Description
The Story
The name Robustus pays tribute to the first wine that Dirk Niepoort made in 1990 with the same name and which was never released. The inspiration behind Robustus is essentially based on traditional way of ageing the wines longer time in bigger old wood. The idea was to make a wine, which portrays well the Douro and its vineyards, of great structure, with the presence of tannins and acidity giving it vigour and nerve as well as many years of li...
Vintage 2013
Portugal’s 2013 wine vintage was a cooler, late-ripening year defined by extreme autumnal weather that split the country into two distinct outcomes. A cold, wet spring delayed flowering across major regions, but a warm, dry summer allowed vines to catch up under ideal conditions. However, heavy rains arrived in mid-September during harvest, forcing growers to choose between picking early at lower potential alcohol or risking botrytis rot by wa...
