Niepoort Port Colheita 2010
€ 40.00
| Producer | Niepoort |
| Region | Douro |
| Grapes | Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Tinta Amarela, Sousão, Tinta Roriz |
| Ageing | Colheita (single harvest), at least 7 years in cask |
| Alcohol | 19.41%vol | pH: 3.62 |
| Serving | At room temperature Keeps 6-8 weeks once opened |
| Scores | 94/100 Wine & Spirits 90/100 Wine Spectator |
A 2010 Colheita: marmalade, raisins and a hint of smoke.
Tasting note
Brick red of medium depth with a light orange rim. A lightly smoky vanilla aroma from the very old casks on the nose, with marmalade, raisins and dried apricots. Medium-bodied, with a soft, long finish.
The story
A Colheita is a tawny from a single harvest that ages for at least seven years in cask before bottling. A wonderful wine on its own, at the end of a meal or by the fire on a cold winter afternoon.
The winter and early spring of 2010 were unusually wet, bringing high yields and heavy disease pressure. Ripening was hot and dry, but some rain in the first days of September helped especially the older, higher vineyards ripen more evenly. Harvest began in early September.
The grapes are foot-trodden in lagares with all their stems, fortified at Niepoort’s Port centre in Vale de Mendiz and then aged in old 550-litre casks in the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia.
Food pairing
As a dessert wine with coffee and vanilla ice cream, fruit tarts and crème brûlée. Sublime with nuts and dried fruit such as raisins, peaches and apricots. Lightly chilled, also as an aperitif.
The producer
Niepoort was founded in 1842 in Vila Nova de Gaia and has belonged to the Dutch Van der Niepoort family for five generations. For more than a century it was a Port shipper without vineyards of its own. That changed when Dirk Niepoort joined his father Rolf in 1987: that year the family bought Quinta de Nápoles on the Tedo, in the Cima Corgo, followed by Quinta do Carril in 1988.
With the first Redoma in 1991 Niepoort became one of the pioneers of unfortified Douro wine, and a new winery was completed at Quinta de Nápoles in 2007. Dirk Niepoort also works in Bairrada, the Dão, Vinho Verde and the Mosel, and his son Daniel joined him at the helm in 2020. The Ports age in the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia.
Critics & Awards
94/100 Wine & Spirits Magazine | Tasted: Dec 2014
90/100 Wine Spectator | Tasted: Dec 2013
17/20 Revista de Vinhos | Tasted: Jun 2012
90/100 CellarTracker (8 notes)
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