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2015 Niepoort Pinot Noir Douro -- what's the story on this?
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 11:51 am
by Andy Velebil
Saw this posted on FB. Since when is Pinot a Douro approved grape to make a DOC wine? Anyone know the story on this one?
Re: 2015 Niepoort Pinot Noir Douro -- what's the story on this?
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:07 pm
by Roy Hersh
Andy Velebil wrote:Saw this posted on FB. Since when is Pinot a Douro approved grape to make a DOC wine? Anyone know the story on this one?
To the best of my knowledge PN is not an approved grape of the Douro, for DOC status.
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Re: 2015 Niepoort Pinot Noir Douro -- what's the story on this?
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 12:56 am
by Andy Velebil
Roy Hersh wrote:Andy Velebil wrote:Saw this posted on FB. Since when is Pinot a Douro approved grape to make a DOC wine? Anyone know the story on this one?
To the best of my knowledge PN is not an approved grape of the Douro, for DOC status.
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That's what I thought too. But it seems Dirk somehow got it approved as DOC. Hopefully someone here knows the story on it.
Re: 2015 Niepoort Pinot Noir Douro -- what's the story on this?
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 8:26 am
by Moses Botbol
Where's Fred?
Re: 2015 Niepoort Pinot Noir Douro -- what's the story on this?
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:11 pm
by Frederick Blais
I don't know if it is Niepoort who asked for it, but I remember asking about this and I got a simple answer like " it is now DOC"
and yes I should try to be more active here....
Re: 2015 Niepoort Pinot Noir Douro -- what's the story on this?
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:58 pm
by Moses Botbol
Is this wine available in the US?
Re: 2015 Niepoort Pinot Noir Douro -- what's the story on this?
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 2:01 pm
by Andy Velebil
Interesting, thanks Fred
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Re: 2015 Niepoort Pinot Noir Douro -- what's the story on this?
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 2:58 pm
by Eric Ifune
Curious!
Re: 2015 Niepoort Pinot Noir Douro -- what's the story on this?
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 5:33 pm
by Frederick Blais
Worth mentionning that 2015 started the collaboration project on this Pinot. In 2015, they invited Jean-Pierre Guyon of Domaine Guyon to make the wine at Napoles. He could do the wine the way he wanted, simply no yeast or chemicals could be added. 2016 was Philippe Pacalet and 2017 was Gonzalo Tamagnini