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Niepoort Conciso

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Current Vintage:2013
Conciso 2013 is light in colour with violet shades. Shows a very fresh mineral aroma, with good reduction and spices notes. It has a fine and very complex aroma. With medium concentration, it is appellative in the mouth with fresh fruit and silky tannins. A light, elegant and very fresh wine, with mineral notes and wild berries, in a long, deep and very delicate finish.

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Niepoort Conciso

Current Vintage: 2013

 

Conciso is our interpretation of a fine and elegant DÃO, a wine that shows the full potential and character of a very old vineyard. This centenarian vineyard, planted in granite soil and facing east on the slopes of Serra da Estrela, has mixed varieties where Baga and Jaen are predominant.

Conciso 2013 is light in colour with violet shades. Shows a very fresh mineral aroma, with good reduction and spices notes. It has a fine and very complex aroma. With medium concentration, it is appellative in the mouth with fresh fruit and silky tannins. A light, elegant and very fresh wine, with mineral notes and wild berries, in a long, deep and very delicate finish.

 

Background Story

In September 2012, during two rainy days in the Douro Valley, which forced to stop the harvest, Dirk Niepoort went to the Dão region to see a very old, almost centenarian vineyard. This vineyard, facing east to the slopes of Serra da Estrela, carefully tended by an old farmer, was in the perfect moment to be harvested. An old vineyard in soil of granite, with mixed varieties was almost like love at first sight. After a healthy discussion, we were able to buy the grapes and harvest on that same day. With the help of our friend Álvaro de Castro, from Quinta da Pellada, the grapes were vinified in lagar (wine press). Conciso is our interpretation of a fine and elegant Dão, without heavy fruit, and that shows the full potential of an old vineyard.

Food Suggestions

Portuguese traditional dishes, game dishes, duck rice.

Vinification

 

2013 was a wet year, with rain during the winter and spring. As a result, the budburst occurred fifteen days later than the previous year and the whole growing cycle was delayed. The summer was not as hot as usual and the nights were quite cold in the last two weeks of August.

The wine was vinified in lagar, with 50% of stems and subject to a long maceration, but with practically no extraction. It fermented for 27 days, and aged for 20 months in an old 2500L barrel at Quinta de Baixo. The wine was bottled without any finning or filtration.

 

 

Technical Information

Soil Type: Granite
Region: Dão
Average Vine Age: 80 and over 100 years
Grape Varieties: Red: Baga (40%), Jaen (30%), others (30%)
Vines Per Ha: 4500
Pruning Method: Gobelet and others
Alt. From Sea Level: 600m
Harvest Period: 16 September 2012
Harvest Method:Hand picked
Malolactic: Barrels
Fermentation: Lagar (wine press) with 50% of stem
Bottled: June 2014
Ageing: 20 months in a 2500L old barrel
Dry Extract:20.3
Residual Sugar (G/DM3): 0.7
Alcohol (%):12.5
Ph:3.53
Total Acidity (G/Dm3):5.36
Volatile Acidity (G/Dm3):0.63
Total so2 (mg/dm3): 25
Production: 3.300 bottles

About Dirk Niepoort

I regard him as one of the sharpest, most provocative and most thoughtful of all winemakers: always willing to experiment, and with a strong sense of direction that comes from being a student of the world’s great wines. Jamie Goode – http://www.wineanorak.com/dirk_van_der_niepoort.htm

“Dirk van der Niepoort is the New Douro: single-handedly he has cajoled, encouraged, persuaded and hauled the Douro into a D.O.C. age of enlightenment. Substituting his Dutch ancestor’s wooden clogs for fashionable plastic Crocs , with an enigmatic expression concealing dry humour, incisive vision and a passion for fine wine verging on the obsessive, he is the uncrowned king of the Cima Corgo. With irreconcilably curly hair and a complex character, this straight talking Beethoven of the bodega has created more stunning wines than might be thought possible in several oenological lifetimes. Beginning with the massively surly and delinquent Robustus in 1990, whose metamorphosis over more than ten years, from ugly duckling into graceful swan, stunned the wine world, not to mention his sceptical father Rolf. Paradoxically progressing to the refined muscularity of Batuta and Burgundian elegance of Charme, his winemaking virtuosity knows no frontiers and continues to push the boundaries of viticulture. Dirk’s skills are not simply confined to the adega, among his many talents are the respective abilities to combine quality with commercial success, develop stylish marketing and impeccable design, and above all, communicate in a direct and clear fashion.” A good nose – The Douro boys    http://www.agoodnose.com

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Single Bottle, Case of 3 x 750ml

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