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Winery | Niepoort |
|---|---|
Grapes | Touriga Nacional |
Region | Douro |
Wine style | Portuguese Douro Red |
Alcohol content | 13.3% |
Allergens | Contains sulfites |
Wine description | It has intense youthful colour, slightly open, leads us to a deep, markedly mineral and crystalline aroma. It is impressive in its purity and finesse, with fresh, red fruit and a spring-like floral note. In the mouth it is fresh, silky but with great tension. Its elegance in a combination of minerality and tannin structure demonstrates matchless complexity. |
Douro Red wines range in style from light and fruity to lush and smooth to dark and dense with flavors of mature dark fruit, with herbal and schist.
The wines are often and inky purple due to the thickening of the skins from the intense summer heat of the region.
Most of the best made reds from the region come from the larger port houses where the skill of the winemakers go back for generations....
