Crusted
⏳ wine.drinking_window
While released with some bottle age and ready to enjoy, it continues to develop beautifully, typically reaching its peak 5 to 15 years after its bottling date.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Stilton blue cheese, dark chocolate desserts, and roasted duck
✨ wine.spec_sheet
Niepoort's Crusted Port is a masterful tribute to a historic and increasingly rare style of Port wine, traditionally beloved by British merchants and connoisseurs. Unlike Vintage Port, which represents a single year, Crusted Port is a selection of high-quality wines from different vintages, sourced from old field-blend vineyards in the Cima Corgo region of the Douro Valley. The grapes, including Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, and Tinta Roriz, are foot-trodden in traditional granite lagares and aged in large wooden vats before being bottled unfiltered. As it matures in the cellar, the wine throws a natural sediment, or 'crust,' along the side of the bottle. This traditional, hands-off approach preserves the wine's vibrant, dark-berried fruit, muscular tannins, and deep, earthy complexity, offering a sensory experience remarkably close to a mature Vintage Port.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Founded in 1842 by Franciscus Marius van der Niepoort, Niepoort is an independent, family-owned Port and wine producer headquartered in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. Under the visionary leadership of fifth-generation winemaker Dirk Niepoort, the house has seamlessly bridged its legendary Port heritage with groundbreaking dry still wines from the Douro, Bairrada, and Dão regions. Renowned for maintaining traditional methods such as foot-treading in granite lagares and aging in historic pipes, Niepoort produces highly acclaimed Colheita and Vintage Ports alongside iconic, elegant still wines like Redoma, Batuta, and Charme.