Colheita
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed within 1–5 years of bottling, though stable for several months after opening due to prolonged cask oxidation.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Tarte tatin with salted caramel, aged Manchego or Stilton, roasted hazelnut and fig tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Colheita Port represents a single-harvest Tawny matured extensively in seasoned wooden vessels, showcasing the synergy between Cima Corgo schist soils and oxidative cellar treatment. Grapes from mixed old field blends—predominantly Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca, and Tinto Cão—undergo rapid extraction via traditional foot-treading in granite lagares before fermentation is halted at mid-sweetness by mutage using 77% neutral grape spirit. The wine is subsequently transferred into seasoned 550- to 600-liter oak pipes, where decades of micro-oxygenation soften structural tannins, evaporate water, and concentrate sugars into an intricate register of dried fruits, toffee, and rancio spice prior to bottling.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1842 by Franciscus Marius van der Niepoort, Niepoort has evolved from a venerable family-run Port shipper into one of the most visionary and influential forces in Portuguese viticulture. Guided by fifth-generation iconoclast Dirk Niepoort alongside his son Daniel, the estate has redefined Douro winemaking by championing terroir-driven, lower-alcohol dry table wines alongside monumental fortified expressions. Sourcing fruit from steep, schistose terraces in the Cima Corgo as well as granitic and clay-limestone soils across Dão, Bairrada, Vinho Verde, and the volcanic slopes of Pico, viticulture prioritizes biodiversity, old field blends, and biodynamic principles. Winemaking emphasizes minimal cellar intervention, whole-bunch fermentations, and traditional foot-treading in granite lagares. Celebrated benchmarks span legendary, ethereal Colheitas and Vintage Ports to nuanced dry still icons such as Redoma, Batuta, Charme, and Quinta de Baixo’s Gonçalves Faria, all defined by remarkable mineral tension, textural finesse, and age-worthy elegance.
🍇 Grapes
Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), Tinta Barroca, Tinto Cão
🍷 ABV
20%