Pisca Vintage
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, Dark chocolate desserts, Roasted walnuts and dried figs
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary Vinha da Pisca, a historic vineyard in the heart of the Pinhão Valley, Niepoort's Pisca Vintage Port represents the pinnacle of traditional Douro viticulture. This low-yielding vineyard, home to ancient field-blend vines, has long provided the structural backbone and soul for Niepoort's finest Vintage Ports. When bottled as a single-vineyard Vintage Port, Pisca showcases an extraordinary purity of fruit, remarkable depth, and a fine-grained tannic structure. The grapes are traditionally foot-trodden in granite lagares at the Vale de Mendiz winery to ensure gentle extraction, then aged in historic wooden vats in the cool cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia. It is a wine defined by its elegance, mineral tension, and profound longevity, embodying the soul of the Douro's schist soils.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1842 by Franciscus Marius van der Niepoort, Niepoort is an iconic, independent family-owned house based in Vila Nova de Gaia with historic roots deeply anchored in Portugal's Douro Valley. Renowned for over a century for its benchmark Colheita and Vintage Ports, the estate underwent a dynamic renaissance under fifth-generation visionary Dirk Niepoort, who pioneered the modern era of high-end, unfortified Douro table wines. Championing old field-blend vineyards, low-intervention vinification, and exceptional terroir expression, the producer crafts celebrated dry wines such as Batuta, Charme, and Redoma alongside its expanded projects in Bairrada and the Dão. Today, Niepoort remains a globally revered symbol of Portuguese winemaking, seamlessly bridging timeless fortified heritage with innovative, elegant, and mineral-driven table wines.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), Tinta Barroca, Tinto Cão