1997 Niepoort Vintage Port
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:55 pm
1997 Niepoort Vintage Port - one of the famous "leakers" - enough that some dripped onto the dwindling Australian section of my cellar - can only be an improvement . . . cork was stained to the top on one side and was surprisingly tight on extraction. Slight oxidation was evident but this was actually pretty damn palatable, dark, rich, raisiny, more "mature" than you'd expect from a pristine bottle, a bit soft, lacking delineation, well integrated alcohol. long enough - 90 pts
I've experienced a LOT of variation in this port over 6 or 7 bottles - the last two both had an off-putting "pickle-barrel" thing going on, two others were wonderful, big, chocolaty puppies, and there were a couple somewhere in-between - "when she was good, she was very good . .
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I've experienced a LOT of variation in this port over 6 or 7 bottles - the last two both had an off-putting "pickle-barrel" thing going on, two others were wonderful, big, chocolaty puppies, and there were a couple somewhere in-between - "when she was good, she was very good . .
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