Niepoort 2024 Syndicate Barrel

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Our first syndicate barrel of Port. And for a first, it's a serious one. Niepoort 2024 Vintage Port. Potential 98 point score in the Wine Advocate. Thirty bottles with your name on the back label. A drinking window stretching to 2060. And a trip to the Douro - tour, tasting and lunch at the estate - built into the share:

Dirk Niepoort is, by some distance, the most important figure in Portuguese wine. When Luis Gutiérrez expanded his Wine Advocate brief to cover Portugal, his opening article was dominated by Niepoort — "the most influential person in Portuguese wine — a pioneer, visionary, leader and ambassador." Of the 255 wines reviewed, the top ten (all 96 points and above) were all Niepoort.

The 2024 Vintage Port is the most exciting thing to come out of that article. 2024 is the first general declaration since 2017 — seven years — and Niepoort's is the highest-rated estate Port of the vintage at 96–98 points, with Gutiérrez pencilling in a drink date of 2060. I tasted the final blend in the Douro and it stopped me in my tracks. This is not a blockbuster — Dirk himself describes it as elegant, vinous and beautifully balanced, closer in spirit to 2017 than to a monster year and speaks of it in the same breath as the legendary trio of 1945, 1955 and 1970, the all-time greats. That balance is exactly what gives it such extraordinary ageing potential. Those on Instagram can watch the video.

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Niepoort 2024 Syndicate Barrel