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Wine Description
The Story
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.
The magic of Vintage Port is different in every phase: as a young wine it captures the youthful fruit characters. Then, after 20 years or more, the effects of the slow bottle age integration are revealed and finally, after many decades, the spirit dominates the wine. Vintage Port is amazing in all the three phases. Half sweet taste, combining with its strong structure. Firm and long tannins, but balanced as a whole. Please, note that Vintage Port needs to be decanted. Perfect with "Queijo da Serra", Stilton or other blue cheeses and with egg desserts, like the portuguese "Pão de Ló".
Soil Type: Schist
Vineyards: Vinha da Pisca, Pinhão e Ferrão
Average Vine Age: 60 and over 100 years
Varieties: Touriga nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Tinta Amarela, Sousão and Tinta Roriz
Vines per Ha: 4000 - 6000
Wine Information
1983 Vintage
The magic of vintage port is different in every phase : as a young wine it captures the youthful fruit characters,then after 20 years or more the wonderful effects of slow bottle age integration are revealed and finally after many decades the spirit dominates the wine. Vintage port is amazing in all three phases. Maturation in the bottle is more reductive than cask ageing and the wine that results has a fruitiness and power which develops in the traditional black port bottle. The wine must be decanted, serve at the end of a meal with cheese, especially blue cheese which goes really well.
Vinification
Following a very long cold winter and a relatively cool spring and early summer, it was only in
september that the weather really picked up and fruit achieved full ripeness, so in general the harvest started late with some full bodied wines being made in granite lagares with foot treading.
Following 2 years ageing in large old oak vats in our cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia, the wine was bottled.
Tasting Notes
Solid red appearance with good depth of colour. On the aroma, initially austere and closed, but with time, some notes of spice and pepper come through. Sweet fruit on the palate and revealing great freshness and a lengthy firm structure.
Vintage 1983
Declared by most houses, 1983 was an exceptional vintage, with outstanding, powerful wines, it was unjustly overshadowed by the 1977s before and the 1985s which followed. Muscular wines with a great capacity for ageing they are often compared to the 1966s.
