Kopke Port – Colheita 2009 75 cl. 20%

Douro Valley Port

Colheita is ‘vintage tawny’, an often overlooked category among the oxidative barrel-aged port wines, and not many producers master this category like Kopke, which, founded in 1638, is the oldest existing port winery.

The rules dictate that colheita must mature for at least 7 years in wooden casks before it can be bottled with the bottling year indicated on the bottle. The storage requirement is a minimum specification; there is no ceiling on how old they must be, but it is a requirement that the wine’s identity papers are registered with and approved by the Port Wine Institute.

After 11 years of storage in Kopke’s cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia, Kopke Colheita Port 2009 is deemed ready to drink, still a little puppyish despite more than a decade of storage; colheita is a distinctive slow wine discipline that really takes its time. Its youthful expression is revealed by a hint of robust fruitiness, which, however, masks all the classic aging attributes such as raisin, dried fig, brown sugar and pickled orange peel. There is sweepingly beautiful intensity in an approachable wine without dissonance; Kopke just knows their stuff with these wines.

After opening, the wine is stable for up to 4-6 weeks – possibly stored in a refrigerator.
After that, the wine just slowly becomes weaker and loses a little focus as the days go by, so no panic if there are a few glasses left in an open bottle. Most of the time, however, this information is of a purely theoretical nature, as this colheita is so good that an open bottle is an empty bottle.

Served at 14-18°.

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229,00 DKK

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