A very nice douro wine label

Frederick Blais · Post by **Frederick Blais** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:17 am

I was unaware that Niepoort was producing a red wine exclusively for the Germany market : Fabelhaft. The label relates a german fable.

A friend of mine brought it as a surprise during the Niepoort tasting I held last friday. Its an easy drinking wine not unlike quality Beaujolais. You can see the label at this URL.

http://www.riegger.ch/de/beveragedetail ... 58585.html

Any German who can tell us what the fable is about?

Gerdinho · Post by **Gerdinho** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:58 am

Hi Fred, here you can find a translation of the fable http://www.rivertext.com/hans.shtml

Gerdinho

Tom Archer · Post by **Tom Archer** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:07 pm

The better the label, the worse the wine...

Pity to see Niepoort going for this sort of marketing!

Frederick Blais · Post by **Frederick Blais** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:39 pm

Tom, of course Fabelhaft is not a great wine, but for 8euros it is very honest. Every company has to hit different market with different products. What should Niepoort do with modest its quality grapes? Sell it or distill it? No instead he makes a good product in the price range that is an introduction to Douro dry wines. Like in every company you have to make profits with every square inch you own.

Ronald Wortel · Post by **Ronald Wortel** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:21 am

Tom, it's not a bad wine at all. Actually, I thought it was very good value for 8 euros! A shame that it is only available on the German market.

For The Love Of Port

A very nice douro wine label

A very nice douro wine label

Dirk Niepoort 'Fabelhaft'