Winery NiepoortColheita Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 4 varietals which are the Cabernet franc, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Colheita Port of Winery Niepoort in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of citrus, smoke or earthy.
Food and wine pairings with Colheita Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Colheita Port
Original food and wine pairings with Colheita Port
The Colheita Port of Winery Niepoort matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of slow-cooked fillet of beef, quiche without eggs or my grandmother's rabbit stew.
Details and technical informations about Winery Niepoort's Colheita Port.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Colheita Port from Winery Niepoort are 1900, 1970, 1968, 1962 and 1934.
Informations about the Winery Niepoort
The Winery Niepoort is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 257 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Porto
The wine region of Porto is located in the region of Duriense of Portugal. We currently count 312 estates and châteaux in the of Porto, producing 2132 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Porto go well with generally quite well with dishes .
The wine region of Duriense
Duriense is a Portuguese wine region covering the same area as the Douro DOC and the Port wine region. In difference from Douro DOC, Duriense VR is a designation at the lower Vinho Regional (VR) level, which corresponds to table wines with a geographical indication under European Union wine regulations, similar to a French vin de pays region. Thus, it is the simpler or less typical wines of the Douro region that are sold using a Duriense VR label. Before the creation of a separate Duriense VR, the Douro vineyards were Part of the former Transmontano/tras-os-montes">Trás-os-Montes VR, which is now called Transmontano VR and no longer includes the Douro vineyards.
The word of the wine: Cup (size in)
Specific to the Mediterranean vineyard, this short pruning which opens the stock in the shape of a corolla offers a good resistance to violent winds but does not allow any mechanization of the vine work.
