Niepoort Turris 2019 Tinto
€ 119.00 € 138.57
| Producer | Niepoort |
| Region | Douro |
| Ageing | 12 months in old Mosel Fuder casks, 24 months in bottle |
| Serving | 16-18°C |
Turris: Dirk Niepoort’s dream, from an unpruned vineyard more than 130 years old.
The story
The grapes from the ‘Torre’ vineyard always went into Batuta, because they contribute to its complexity and depth in a very special way. In 2012 Dirk Niepoort decided to fulfil his dream and vinify this unique vineyard separately for the first time. Turris comes from a vineyard more than 130 years old, without any pruning method, facing south in the Cima Corgo.
The wine ferments in stainless steel tanks with 30% stems, with five weeks of skin contact, very light maceration and limited extraction. It then ages for twelve months in Fuder casks more than sixty years old from the Mosel, followed by another 24 months in bottle.
Food pairing
A versatile wine at the table.
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.
