Niepoort Drink Me Nat Cool Bairrada 1L

This 1 litre bottle of supple, friendly Portuguese red delivers plenty of bang for your buck. Made from hand picked Baga grapes, it’s made in a bright, fresh fruited style well suited to serving a little chilled.

Based along Portugal’s famed Douro River, Niepoort have been making Port since the 1840’s, purchasing their own vineyards (Quinta) in the 1980’s. Now in it’s 5th generation, brother and sister Dirk and Verena have injected youthful energy into their family estate. As well as still producing port, they also focus on making elegant, lower alcohol wines that express terroir, aided by organic and biodynamic practices. Traditional techniques are still honoured, like the use of Lagares, the circular granite troughs where fruit is foot crushed and fermented. With such a wide range of styles produced, there’s amazing drinking to be explored here.