2010 Niepoort Bioma tinto

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This is the first vintage of an organic red wine made by Niepoort of which 9.114 bottles were produced. I got this in a local supermarket in Cologne (not the one we went to, Daniel) for 17 Euros.

The Niepoort website describes the wine as follows:
"2010 is the first edition of this wine made entirely with grapes from our own vineyards at Quinta de Nápoles, where we practice organic viticulture, currently undergoing the process of certification. Made with our younger vineyards, with 20 years old, the idea was to have less intervention during the winemaking process. The ageing process was made in old wooden big containers recovered from port wine wood. The goal was to make a pure wine without the oak character, but with elegant and firm tannins."
More here: http://www.niepoort-vinhos.com/en/wines ... .html#2010
The label says that it was bottled in January 2012.

D+0h: some deposit in the tea filter (that I normally use) and in the bottle, smells of sour cherry and raspberry, somehow this is quite a "port wine nose" , D+5,5h: dark as ink, smells of eucalyptus and raspberry (somehow it reminds me of a late '90ies Bomfim I had last year), medium body, very dry, acidity in the mouth (it's not excessive, but nevertheless quite present), quite big and distinct tannins i.e. quite tannic (I can feel a certain kind of "furryness" on the tongue and on back of my incisor teeth), raspberry in the mouth, in the aftertaste raspberry and sharp tannins, good length (30 seconds), D+7,5: gets softer now (note to myself: decant this for at least 8 hours the next time).
Quite a very good Douro red. Now it's simply too young. I think that this will need at least 5 years for the tannins to get rounder.