Niepoort, D.O.C. Douro
Niepoort has been an independent family business since 1842. Fifth generation Dirk joined his father Rolf in the family business in 1987, and was challenged to innovate while maintaining the business' traditions.
The first important step in modernising the business was the acquisition of their own vineyards: Quinta de Nápoles and Quinta do Carril in Cima Corgo, a region that traditionally produces the best Port Wines; 15 hectares of vineyards were newly planted, and 10 hectares 60-year old vines were carefully maintained.
Now head of the business, Dirk is one of the most important thinkers on the Douro scene, and a noted innovator. His passion for wine and the humble respect and curiosity for the Douro terroir has defined the Niepoort spirit over the past two decades.
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Douro |
$33.00 |
6 |
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Intense red fruit and spice teams with a typical Douro schist stony character. The palate is vibrant and appealing, with bright fruit, juicy tannins and good acidity that extends the back palate. |
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Douro |
$65.00 |
6 |
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A rich, ruby red to look at, and smells of red berry fruits run through with prominent smokey-ashy Douro schist terroir aromas. There's some game, husky-nuttiness, and back notes of cola, cold tea and briar. The palate has good volume of sweet fleshy fruit, cleansing-drying tea-like fruit tannins and very very subtle oak tucked well in down the back stretch. Overall, a lively fresh wine of just about mid-weight. It's a calm, fine and refined expression of Douro red berry earthiness. |
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Douro |
$115.00 |
6 |
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Controlled rusticity, using traditional lagares, but with water jacketing for temperature control during fermentation. Intense, complex black and red fruits with tobacco and a giant lash of spice, earthy mineral and very precise. Aged 20 months in new French. |
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Douro |
$200.00 |
6 |
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Dirk's aim was to produce an impressive wine, and that is why the name Batuta (meaning the orchestral conductor baton) was chosen. The Batuta is a 100 year old vine selection of the Redoma Douro. |
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Douro |
$200.00 |
6 |
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Small, sheltered vineyards produce gentle and elegant fruit, with relatively low alcohol and high acidity-Dirk's take on "Douro Burgundy"!! Fermented in lagare, with malo and ageing in French barrique. Outlandish indeed! |
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Douro |
$200.00 |
6 |
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Half Redoma, half Batuta fruit, aged 4 years in oak. Homemade blackberry/dark cherry conserve - no lumps, just lots of delicious, preserved fruit flavour; slight Syrah-like spiciness; an ounce of schist gravel. Smooth, 'iron fist in a velvet glove' tannins and acid structure. More on toast please. We love this! |
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Douro |
$145.00 |
6 |
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'Projectos' meaning projects in Portuguese ... refers to the Niepoort project looking at whether Pinot Noir could succeed in the Douro. This is both flat-out varietal, and unmistakeably Douro with a thread of that tobacco-and-soot earthy minerality lining the back half of otherwise regulation Pinot fruit. |
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Douro |
$115.00 |
6 |
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Niepoort has finally launched their wine produced in Portugal by Telmo Rodriguez. It comes from two vineyards in the 'Covas do Douro' area. Made with great care, without extractions and remaining on skins for 15 days before going into new French oak barrels (500 l) for 20 months maturation. It is very expressive, fresh, aromatic and elegant with race and precise tannins, this wine is just fantastic and with a great future ahead. Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Sousao and all the other varieties common in old vines. |
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Douro & Dão |
$145.00 |
6 |
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A joint venture between Niepoort's Do (short for Douro) and Alvaro Castro's Da (short for Dão). The Da provides fresh elegant material to counterpoint the power and richmess of Do fruit. The result is lovely, perfumed, raspberry fruit aromas, with richness and freshness on the palate. Tannins are firm acidity bright and there's a creamy feel to the whole. |
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