Kopke Vintage Port 1997
€ 74.00
| Producer | Kopke |
| Region | Douro |
| Grapes | Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca, Tinto Cão, Touriga Franca |
| Ageing | Vintage Port (a single exceptional year) |
| Alcohol | 20%vol |
| Serving | 16-18°C, decant 6 to 24 hours in advance Keeps up to 2 days once opened |
| Scores | 17/20 Jancis Robinson |
A 1997 Vintage Port from the old vines of Quinta de São Luiz.
The story
A Vintage Port comes from a single exceptional year and spends only a short time in cask, so that it continues to develop in bottle.
The special quality of Kopke’s Vintage Port comes from very low-yielding Touriga Nacional from vines more than a hundred years old, complemented by other varieties averaging eighty years old. These old vines on Quinta de São Luiz give small quantities of very intense fruit.
A good Vintage Port needs 15 to 20 years to reach its peak. The tannins soften, the full fruit steps back a little and makes way for cedar, leather, spice and toffee.
Food pairing
Delicious with foie gras, cheeses such as Gorgonzola and Roquefort, as an aperitif or as a dessert wine.
The producer
Kopke was founded in Porto in 1638 by the German merchant family Kopke, representatives of the Hanseatic League, and is the oldest Port house in the world. In 1922 the house bought Quinta de São Luiz, on the left bank of the Douro between Régua and Pinhão, with old vines of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz and Tinto Cão. Kopke is best known for its Colheitas and old tawnies, drawn from one of the deepest stocks of old Port in the Douro.
Since 2006 Kopke has belonged to the Sogevinus group, renamed Kopke Group in 2025. Since 2022 Carla Tiago has been winemaker and master blender for all Kopke Ports.
Critics & Awards
17/20 Jancis Robinson | Tasted: Nov 2008
84/100 Stephen Tanzer
91/100 CellarTracker (10 notes)
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