White Colheita
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Almond tart, foie gras, and aged blue cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Niepoort's White Colheita is a rare and exquisite expression of single-vintage White Port, aged for a minimum of seven years—and often several decades—in small, historic oak casks known as pipes. Sourced from ancient, low-yielding vineyards planted on the steep, schistous slopes of the Douro Valley, this wine is crafted from a field blend of traditional white grapes, including Côdega, Rabigato, Viosinho, Arinto, and Gouveio. Over its long sleep in the cool cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, the wine undergoes a slow, oxidative transformation, shedding its youthful fruit to develop a deep amber hue and an incredibly complex bouquet of dried apricots, orange peel, toasted almonds, and exotic spices. Dirk Niepoort's mastery of blending and patience is on full display here, capturing the soul of a single harvest in a style that bridges the freshness of white grapes with the profound depth of long wood aging.
🍾 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