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Niepoort's Late Bottled Vintage 1982 Porto 75cl

Niepoort's Late Bottled Vintage 1982 Porto 75cl
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Niepoort's Late Bottled Vintage 1982 Porto 75clNiepoort's Late Bottled Vintage 1982 Porto 75cl

Lot number: 0551955

Winning bid: £45

This Niepoor Late Bottled Vintage Port is from a single year. The wine ages 4-6 years in old oak casks (opposed to Vintage that ages 2-3). LBV fills the gap between the Rubies and the Vintage Ports since a Ruby Port should be drunk quite young and a great Vintage Port may need 15 to 20 years to really open up and show its splendour. This led to the idea in the 1960s to age the wine 4 to 6 years in large casks before bottling it, thereby producing a wine with the style of a Vintage Port with its deep colour and concentration of fruit, but with a more mature character caused by the longer ageing in wood. Late Bottled Vintage is the perfect Port to accompany chocolate desserts, specially bitter chocolate or a pepper steak

Distilled: 1982

Bottled: 1988

20% ABV / 75cl

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