Late Bottled Vintage
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheeses such as Stilton, rich dark chocolate desserts, and roasted venison or pepper-crusted beef.
✨ Technical Specifications
Niepoort's Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) Port is a testament to the house's dedication to traditional, uncompromising winemaking. While many modern producers filter their LBVs for early, easy consumption, Niepoort famously bottles theirs unfiltered after aging for four to six years in large wooden vats known as balseiros. This traditional method preserves the wine's deep concentration, muscular tannic structure, and remarkable longevity. Sourced from old field-blend vineyards in the rugged Cima Corgo region of the Douro Valley—featuring classic varieties such as Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinto Cão, and Tinta Roriz—this LBV bridges the gap between the immediate accessibility of a Ruby Port and the profound complexity of a classic Vintage Port. It is a wine of dark fruit, spice, and mineral depth, reflecting the schistous soils of its historic terroir.
🍾 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