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  • Country ranking ?

    188
  • Producer ranking ?

    75
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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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 ...

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Wine Information

2009 has all the ingredients of a classic Vintage year: POWER & ELEGANCE. Low yields, perfect maturation, great concentration and on top of that great acidity. It was clear for us from the start of the 2009 harvest that the perfect conditions for port were there: timings of picking were perfect and the weather conditions ideal. The youngest vineyard is over 80 years old and all the fruit comes from Cima Corgo. The grape varieties are the “usua...

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Tasting note

color

Medium and Purple

ending

Long, Extensive and Pure

flavors

Blackberry, Blueberry and Mineral

nose

Youthful and Fresh

recommend

Yes

taste

Medium tannin, Well-structured, Perfectly balanced, Concentrated, Medium-bodied, Aggressive, Fresh, Vigor, Sweet and Silky tannins

Written Notes

Massive in every way but so beautifully complete and integrated. More flesh than the tannic 2007 but the power and structure are all there; rich, sustained, mouthfilling and very long indeed. (JH)

  • 93p

All of the fruit for Niepoort 2009 Vintage Port comes from the Cima Corgo region of the Douro and the youngest vineyard harvest for the blend was over 80 years old. It is a typical Douro blend of Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Tinta Amarela, Sousão and others, including Touriga Nacional. This vintage continues Niepoort’s tradition to create balanced Ports with great concentration but finesse and elegance. All of the parcels of fruit for the Niepoort 2009 Vintage Port were trodden by foot in circular stone lagares at Niepoort’s Port winery in Vale de Mendiz. In a very good vintage, such as this, whole bunches are vinified without de-stemming. The individual components for Niepoort 2009 Vintage Port are racked soon after harvest and then aged in “toneis” in the Douro over the winter prior to moving the barrels down to Vila Nova de Gaia in March 2010. Here the wine was blended and again left to rest in “toneis” until the final blend was bottled at the Niepoort lodges in May 2011.

  • 95p

It has a voluptuous nose with great fruit, but also very spicy and peppery. On the palate, this Port is highly concentrated, with huge structure, and massive, but sexy, tannins. A Vintage Port of power, elegance, and balance. Once again, at Niepoort, we believe that we have produced Vintage Port to last for decades to come.

All the components for our 2009 Vintage Port were trodden by foot in circular granite "lagares" at our Port winery in Vale de Mendiz. As usual for a Vintage of this quality, we included almost 100% stems in the vinification. The component Ports were racked soon after harvest, and aged in "tonéis" in the Douro over the winter, before moving them to Vila Nova de Gaia in March 2010. From there, we re-tasted extensively in order to find the ideal wines for a 2009 Niepoort Vintage Port. The final blend then rested again in "tonéis" at our lodges in Vila Nova de Gaia, until bottling in May 2011.

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Origin

Porto, Douro

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