Niepoort LBV Late Bottled Vintage 1981 Provence

Niepoort LBV Late Bottled Vintage 1981 ProvenceTasting Notes 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

Mourvèdre Pairing Lamb

guava and grapefruit and notes of white pepper

The 2009 harvest was not easy

Vinification Night harvest

Producer Domaine Baron de L'Ecluse Grapes 100% Gamay Pairing Pork Keeping Drink within 3 to 4 years of bottling

It is harvested very early and vinified as a white wine

what intensity

Vinification The mechanical harvest

when the Buissiere family created Château de Bonhoste and in 1977

Dry Producer Casters Liebart Grapes 60% Chardonnay

the youngest of which has spent at least 5 years in oak barrels

Williams pear