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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 ...
Wine Information
Niepoort Vintage Port 2005
“I don’t believe in a perfect wine, but this one is the closest to perfection that I have ever been able to produce. It has tannins like Romanée-Conti, it has more Burgundy aromas than port. You feel the tension in it but it does not hit you. It is 100% stems, foot-trodden, 12-14 hl/ha. I like to make the basic blend during the harvest at the winery in Douro. Many times it is just an experiment but in 2005 we used...
