1990 Niepoort Colheita Port -- bottled 2002
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:46 pm
TN: Niepoort 1990 Colhieta Porto, bottled 2002 (unfiltered), 20 pabv, $54/750 ml, Village Corner, Ann Arbor, MI.
I picked up this wine on the way to the 2006 MoCOOL cooperative yearly offline, to go along with the other 'Sweet, Sixteen, and Bubbly' wines I had brought along up 1-75 from Piqua, OH. I was very happy I did.
A lovely transparent glowing ruby color with little evidence of bittiness, even thought it is not filtered. The quintessential appearance of a vintage-dated tawny.
A complex and resonant nose of licorice, cherry, earth, smoke, leather, clove, together with medicinal notes.
Rich and sweet, with integrated spirits, good ripe finely resolved tannins, and lively and balanced acidity. This wine hits so many buttons that it's really impossible to describe, and yet it shows a wonderful sweep of esxpressiveness right up to its finish.
93/100. Shows you why Dirk Niepoort wines are deservedly creeping up in price into the first tier, as more folks find out what an astounding property this is.
Cross-posted to the forum eRobert Parker.
I hope to post some other of the considerable wines we enjoyed at this yearly tasting, one which I try not ever to miss. Standouts for me were the 1990 Lafite (a perfect bottle), the 1934 Fonseca Setubal Garrafiera Moscato Centennial Bottling, the 1993 Schoss Lieser Niederberg Helden Riesling Beerenauslese, the 1990 Quarts de Chaume Baumard and 1989 Vouvray Bourillon Dorleans Moelleux Coulee D'Or Trie de Grains Nobles, along with the 1985 Taylor (coming around, finally), the 1985 Grahams, and the van Volxem Scharzhofberg Riesling Spätlese 2000. There were several wonderful 1990 Rhône wines, as well.
I picked up this wine on the way to the 2006 MoCOOL cooperative yearly offline, to go along with the other 'Sweet, Sixteen, and Bubbly' wines I had brought along up 1-75 from Piqua, OH. I was very happy I did.
A lovely transparent glowing ruby color with little evidence of bittiness, even thought it is not filtered. The quintessential appearance of a vintage-dated tawny.
A complex and resonant nose of licorice, cherry, earth, smoke, leather, clove, together with medicinal notes.
Rich and sweet, with integrated spirits, good ripe finely resolved tannins, and lively and balanced acidity. This wine hits so many buttons that it's really impossible to describe, and yet it shows a wonderful sweep of esxpressiveness right up to its finish.
93/100. Shows you why Dirk Niepoort wines are deservedly creeping up in price into the first tier, as more folks find out what an astounding property this is.
Cross-posted to the forum eRobert Parker.
I hope to post some other of the considerable wines we enjoyed at this yearly tasting, one which I try not ever to miss. Standouts for me were the 1990 Lafite (a perfect bottle), the 1934 Fonseca Setubal Garrafiera Moscato Centennial Bottling, the 1993 Schoss Lieser Niederberg Helden Riesling Beerenauslese, the 1990 Quarts de Chaume Baumard and 1989 Vouvray Bourillon Dorleans Moelleux Coulee D'Or Trie de Grains Nobles, along with the 1985 Taylor (coming around, finally), the 1985 Grahams, and the van Volxem Scharzhofberg Riesling Spätlese 2000. There were several wonderful 1990 Rhône wines, as well.