Petre's Vintage
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Typically best enjoyed 15 to 40 years from the vintage release, with the potential to age beautifully for several decades.
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Blue cheese, dark chocolate desserts, roasted walnuts and dried figs
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Niepoort is legendary for its classic, elegant, and long-lived Vintage Ports. While Petre's Vintage is an extremely rare or highly specific bottling from their archives, any Vintage Port-style release from Niepoort represents the pinnacle of Douro viticulture. Sourced primarily from ancient, low-yielding vineyards in the Cima Corgo subregion—featuring traditional field blends of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, and Tinta Roriz—the grapes are traditionally foot-trodden in granite lagares to maximize extraction. The wine is aged in large wooden vats in the historic cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia before being bottled unfiltered. Niepoort's signature style emphasizes freshness, balance, and fine-grained tannins over sheer power, resulting in Ports of immense longevity and complexity.
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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.