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  • Country ranking ?

    95
  • Producer ranking ?

    25
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

By introducing another premium Vintage Port to the Niepoort Portfolio, Bioma “Vinha Velha” provides us with the opportunity to create, or re-create, a style of Vintage Port which not only respects the terroir, but also harks back to a golden age of Port. At the heart of the concept of Bioma “Vinha Velha”, is a very special vineyard (Vinha da Pisca) in a very peculiar part of the Douro.

 

For many years, this vineyard has provided the bac...

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The wine boasts a brilliant dark red appearance accompanied by a nose of bitter chocolate and dark fruits of the forest. On the palate it is medium sweet, with superb freshness and acidity following through to a firm, tannic and seemingly inexhaustible finish.

The whole grape bunches were foot-trodden at our Port winemaking facility in Vale de Mendiz. After being fortified with brandy, the Port was left to settle over the winter. In springtime, the wine was transferred to a very cool part of the winery at Quinta de Nápoles and racked into pipas (the traditional 550 litre casks). By maturing this Port in pipas in a cool cellar in the Douro instead of in large vats in Gaia and bottling the Bioma “Vinha Velha” in the third year after the harvest, we are able to produce an exceptionally complex wine. Interestingly, this is the way it used to be made in the “good old days” when wines were shipped to England in pipas, and bottled later.

Cask sample. Inky and the colour of elderberry juice. Wonderful dark-fruited intensity. Damsons, black plums and sweet spice. Roasted but not overripe. Incredible power but the sweetness is taken down a peg by charry, dark savoury finish. Glorious.

  • 96p

Deep ruby. Intense blackberries, anise, some spices, ripe and rich nose. Tight. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, intense, juicy, spices, chocolate, layered and deep, minerals, long. 96
 

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Origin

Porto, Douro

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