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Wine Description
The Story
Dirk Niepoort: “Our way of making wine is very simple: it requires perfectionism and attention to detail. And that applies to everything in my life.”
Vintage Port maintains Niepoort's tradition of making balanced Ports with great concentration, being at the same time fine and delicate. We strongly believe we can make a Vintage Port with potencial to last for decades. Vintage Port must be bottled within two or three years of the harvest date...
Vintage 1931
The 1931 wine vintage in Bordeaux was a disastrous, poor, and highly difficult year, historically remembered as one of the weakest and most weather-plagued harvests of the 20th century. A miserably long, wet spring gave way to a relentlessly cool and gloomy summer, plagued by a staggering 21 days of rainfall in August alone that starved the vines of crucial sun exposure. This cold, waterlogged climate delayed the harvest until late September a...
