Pisca Vintage
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Typically best enjoyed 15 to 50 years from the vintage release, showing magnificent evolution over decades.
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Blue cheese, Dark chocolate desserts, Roasted walnuts and dried figs
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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.
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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.