Niepoort 10 Year Tawny Port NV Big Bottle with 15 percent Tinta Negra

with 15 percent Tinta Negra from Estreito de Câmara de Lobos

The wine that comes out is dense

Élevage lasts a year and is split evenly between used 500-liter barrels and terracotta jars

with total acreage under vine is 64 acres of Verdicchio and 12 acres of Montepulciano and Sangiovese yielding the Rosso Piceno DOC

mineral heart: weathered Devonian slate over clay and a deep water table

Niepoort 10 Year Tawny Port NV Big Bottle with 15 percent Tinta NegraNiepoort has been family owned since 1842, one of the last independent houses in Porto, and its aged tawnies remain the work of the Nogueira family, master blenders here across five generations. Fruit comes from old, low yielding Douro vineyards whose vines average more than six decades; the grapes are trodden by foot in lagares, and the wines age in small, old 550 liter oak casks in the cool cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia until the blend averages ten