Winery Niepoort - Late Bottled Vintage Port

Winery NiepoortLate Bottled Vintage Port

3.9
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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Niepoort is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

chocolate, caramel

Wine with spices taste

pepper, licorice

Wine with earth taste

honey, leather

Wine with microbio taste

cheese, cream

Wine with floral taste

violet

On the nose the Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Niepoort in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cream, microbio or cinnamon and sometimes also flavors of dried fig, cheese or fig.

Details and technical informations about Winery Niepoort's Late Bottled Vintage Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
20°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Tinto cão

- Origin : Most certainly from the north of Portugal, it is a very old grape variety, present for a very long time in the Douro Valley where it is very often associated with other grape varieties to produce the famous Port. It can also be found in the United States (California, etc.), Australia, Spain, Mexico, etc.

Last vintages of this wine

Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2020
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2019
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2018
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 411110
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2017
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2016
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.911110
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2015
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2014
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.911110

The best vintages of Late Bottled Vintage Port from Winery Niepoort are 1977, 1978, 1980, 1989 and 1982.

Informations about the Winery Niepoort

The winery offers 193 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is in the top 25 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Niepoort is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 104 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 2000 of of Portugal wines
In the top 600 of of Porto wines
In the top 600 of natural sweet wines
In the top 35000 wines of the world

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.

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The word of the wine: Alcohol

A generic term for the various alcohols produced during fermentation that give the wine body, structure and warmth.

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