Drink Me Nat Cool
⏳ Drikkevindue
Best enjoyed fresh and youthful, typically within 1 to 3 years of the vintage release.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Traditional Portuguese roasted suckling pig, assorted charcuterie, or grilled sardines.
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
The 'Drink Me' Nat Cool is a whimsical and revolutionary creation by Dirk Niepoort, designed to redefine the perception of Bairrada's signature Baga grape. Traditionally known for producing dense, highly tannic, and long-lived reds, Baga is reimagined here under Niepoort's 'Nat Cool' philosophy—an initiative promoting light, easy-drinking, low-intervention wines with low alcohol and high drinkability, famously packaged in eco-friendly one-liter bottles. Sourced from old vines grown on Bairrada's classic clay-limestone soils, the wine undergoes a short maceration and is aged entirely in stainless steel to preserve its vibrant, crunchy red fruit character and saline minerality. The playful 'Drink Me' label, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, invites wine lovers to enjoy Baga in its most unpretentious, refreshing, and joyful form.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
Niepoort blev grundlagt i 1842 af Franciscus Marius van der Niepoort og er et ikonisk, uafhængigt familieejet hus med base i Vila Nova de Gaia og dybe historiske rødder i Portugals Douro-dal. Huset har i over et århundrede været berømt for sine skelsættende Colheita- og Vintage Ports, men gennemgik en dynamisk renæssance under femtegenerations-visionæren Dirk Niepoort, der banede vejen for den moderne æra af uforstærkede Douro-bordvine i absolut topklasse. Med en kompromisløs forkærlighed for gamle vinmarker med field blends, minimal intervention i vinfremstillingen og et unikt terroirudtryk skaber vinhuset hyldede tørre vine som Batuta, Charme og Redoma sideløbende med nyere projekter i Bairrada og Dão. I dag står Niepoort som et globalt beundret pejlemærke for portugisisk vinkunst, der ubesværet forener en tidløs portvinsarv med innovative, elegante og mineralske bordvine.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Baga (min 50%), Touriga Nacional