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Bioma | Vinha Velha 2011

Avec Bioma “Vinha Velha”, nous souhaitons proposer, en quantité très réduite, un style de porto Vintage qui serapproche des meilleurs portos Vintage de 1970 et des années précédentes, lesquels étaient mis en bouteille en Angleterre.

Le nom “Vinha Velha” [vieille vigne] s’inspire de l’extraordinaire longévité des pieds de vigne de Vinha da Pisca, qui ontpour la plupart plus de 80 ans. La qualité sans pareille des fruits provenant des anciennes vignes semble exprimer àmerveille ce sentiment d’appartenance propre à la façon de faire d’autrefois.

VINIFICATION

At our Port winemaking facility, in Vale de Mendiz, the grapes for Bioma are trodden entirely by foot with 100% stems.After fortification with fine brandy, the Port is left to settle over the winter. Springtime sees the wine transferred to a verycool part of our winery at Quinta de Nápoles and racked into pipes (the classic 550 litre lodge pipe). For the classicNiepoort Vintage, and most other vintage port, the wines are transferred to Vila Nova de Gaia, and aged in large vats.Using pipas instead of large vats was inspired in the “old days” when wines were shipped to England in pipes.Furthermore we bottle Bioma “Vinha Velha” in the third year after the harvest, rather than the second. This results thatwe offer Bioma one year later than the classic Vintage Port. The agricultural year in 2011 will be remembered for relativelylow precipitation during the winter and an unusually early bud burst in March along with the sudden extreme heat inJune which literally led to burnt clusters in exposed and early varieties such as Tinta Barroca. Although July and the endof August was relatively cool with some light precipitation at the end of August and the first few days of September; asfrom mid September when picking was well under way, temperatures picked up and the harvest had to be accelerated atthe Pisca Vineyard to avoid berry shrivel.

NOTES DE DÉGUSTATION

Fine dark red appearance with a dark red/purple rim, at this stage the aroma is rather unrevealing, but on the palategreat freshness and a purity of fruit, giving elegance, along with some grainy tannins on the mid palate giving bothstructure and power to the wine,it can be expected that with another year of ageing the colour will close up further.

INFORMATIONS TECHNIQUES

PRODUCTEUR Niepoort (Vinhos) S.A. RÉGION Douro TYPE DE SOL Schist

ÂGE DE SIGNES 80 and over 100 years

CÉPAGES Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Tinta Amarela, Sousão and others,including Touriga Nacional

PIEDS DE VIGNE PAR HA 4000 - 6000 PÉRIODE DE VENDANGE September/October

MODE DE VENDANGE Hand Picked FERMENTATION Lagares / Foot Treading

MISE EN BOUTEILLE Expected in May/June 2014 EXTRAIT SEC 138.1 SUCRE RÉSIDUEL 110 ALCOOL 21

BAUME 3.9 ACIDITÉ TOTALE 5.36 ACIDITÉ VOLATILE 0.34 SO2 LIBRE DE REMPLISSAGE 92

MASSE VOLUMIQUE 1.0254