Niepoort Tawny Port wine

Niepoort Tawny Port wine is classic brick colored in the glass. Soft and delicious port wine with lovely sweetness, a long aftertaste with ripe black cherries and dried fruits in a good glass for nutty desserts and the cheese board.

Scent: Ripe black cherries, leather and dried fruits.
Taste: Soft and balanced with flavors of red cherries and a good intensity.
Server for: An excellent companion to powerful dry cheeses, desserts with nuts and dried fruit.
Serving temperature: 10-12°C.

Niepoort Tawny Port wine is made from Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Tinta Amarela, Sousão, Tinta Roriz and other local grapes.

The grapes are planted on the slopes of the Douro valley and are harvested by hand in September and October. The vines from which Niepoort harvests its grapes are on average more than 30 years old. The grapes are trodden, by both men and women, with their feet in lagares (low granite vessels). When the fermentation process has achieved some alcohol, but the must still possesses large amounts of natural sweetness, grape spirit is added and fermentation is stopped. This creates port wine with an alcohol strength of approx. 20 percent and a wine with high residual sugar. Niepoort Tawny is aged for a good 3.5 years in small oak casks to get the natural oxidative development which makes it lighter in color and more rounded in taste.

Niepoort:

At Niepoort, the family has been in charge of operations for five generations. As the latest, Eduard Dirk Niepoort took over the company in 2005 when his father retired. It has always been aimed that two generations have worked together in the company to preserve the spirit and style of the wine. Dirk has been with the company since 1987. From the start, he has had his own visions, which were awakened during his time as a student in e.g. Switzerland. Dirk wants to keep the style of the house, but at the same time improve things. The family's production of port wines has always been of very high quality, wines with great concentration and a long shelf life. The house Niepoort has for many years been famous for its classic Port wines of very high quality. That tradition can be traced back to 1842, when the family-owned company was founded.