2017 Niepoort
Posted: 21:12 Thu 28 May 2020
A random half bottle picked up while filleting a non-UK wine list for other things. 2 hour decant.
90% opaque glass-staining black cherry juice.
Nose like a very expensive Napa Cabernet served slightly too young- wood, mint, red fruit.
On the palate, an explosion of ripe berries. Very attractive balance and freshness.
Tannins are fully there but barely visible until well into the minute-long morello cherry finish.
Amazing port.
I have not tasted that much really young VP; but allowing for the fact that I am an amateur in this sub-field, this Niepoort 2017 still seems astonishing.
Drink now and, I suspect, over the next thirty years; I am happy to say I have stocked up sufficiently to enable me to produce biennial feedback for the next couple of decades or so from stock...
90% opaque glass-staining black cherry juice.
Nose like a very expensive Napa Cabernet served slightly too young- wood, mint, red fruit.
On the palate, an explosion of ripe berries. Very attractive balance and freshness.
Tannins are fully there but barely visible until well into the minute-long morello cherry finish.
Amazing port.
I have not tasted that much really young VP; but allowing for the fact that I am an amateur in this sub-field, this Niepoort 2017 still seems astonishing.
Drink now and, I suspect, over the next thirty years; I am happy to say I have stocked up sufficiently to enable me to produce biennial feedback for the next couple of decades or so from stock...