Niepoort ‘Batuta’ Tinta Amarela Blend 2010 Size::1 Bottle Typically flinty and grassy edge

Typically flinty and grassy edge to still quite primary Chardonnay fruit on the nose

This wine is the first of three cuvées focusing on Corcelette’s sandy and granitic soils

today we are producing half as much as we did ten years ago

crunch and gently rasping tannic grip

95 pts - International Wine Challenge 2019

Niepoort ‘Batuta’ Tinta Amarela Blend 2010 Size::1 Bottle Typically flinty and grassy edgeThe 2010 Batuta is sourced mostly from North facing old vineyards (Quinta do Carril, 70 years), although some old vines (100 years) from Niepoorts Napoles are also included. It was aged in 228 liter French oak for 22 months, only 30% new. Principal grapes of the old vines blend (as emphasized by the winery) include Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela and Rufete. Niepoort sums up this elegant bottling well by saying Batuta is a wine of extremes,