Secundum Vintage
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, dark chocolate desserts, roasted nuts and dried fruits
✨ Technical Specifications
Secundum Vintage Port represents a fascinating chapter in Niepoort's storied history, conceived by Dirk Niepoort to offer a Vintage Port that is approachable and expressive in its youth while maintaining the structure to age gracefully for decades. The name 'Secundum'—Latin for 'second' or 'favorable'—hints at its role as a sibling to the house's classic Vintage Port. Sourced from field blends of ancient, low-yielding vines in the rugged Cima Corgo subregion of the Douro Valley, the grapes (including Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, and Tinta Roriz) are traditionally foot-trodden in granite lagares. This hands-on, ancestral method ensures gentle extraction of deep color and velvety tannins. Aged in large wooden vats to preserve its vibrant fruit character before being bottled unfiltered, Secundum showcases a harmonious balance of dark fruit intensity, spice, and elegant minerality.
🍾 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