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Opaque to purple at edge. Nose of structural elements, mostly tannin, and sweet cherries. Taste has excellent size, but slightly rough. Would work perfectly with food.
Usual retail £12.95, though £11.97 on the evening.
2011 Niepoort Drink Me Tinto
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Re: 2011 Niepoort Drink Me Tinto
djewesbury wrote:We held our second 'Port of Belfast' event in a room at the Lyric Theatre. We were very pleased to be able to host a tutored tasting of Niepoort wines and ports with Nick Delaforce.
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Re: 2011 Niepoort Drink Me Tinto
Nick used the word 'balsamic' in describing the nose, which is interesting: definitely an 'umami' character, but a butteriness too. In the mouth it's meaty, much softer after being able to breathe for a couple of hours (at first it was very dense and blocky, even rough); became more elegantly structured.
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Re: 2011 Niepoort Drink Me Tinto
The Drink me/Fabuloso is a nice wine. But in my humble opinion it is overpriced by 25 %. You have to pay for the brand name and it's success is probably due to the clever marketing (it has a different name in every market) and not due to the quality (which is quite good but you get better quality for the same price or the same quality for a lesser price elsewhere). But it opened up markets for Douro wines (at least here in my native Germany) and that is a good thing for Portuguese wine in general. Besides it's Niepoort's cashcow which enables them to deliver high quality in their VPs which is good for port lovers.
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