2007 Niepoort Douro Redoma

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  4/8/2020 - Livonietisr Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Ruby red. Dark fruit and chocolate on nose. Tanins fully integrated. Fruity and long. Time to drink up.

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  8/8/2019 - markcic Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Opened two hours before dinner and poured though a vintorio. Dark fruit on the nose. The palate was dark plums, tree bark, tobacco and a hint of spice. Different than the bottle I had last year but still very enjoyable

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  12/31/2018 - Balthasar wrote: 90 Points

  Very accessible already; clean red fruits, tree bark, milk chocolate and hints of menthol on the nose. Smooth and silky palate with good depth and resonance. Light on its feets, polished and well balanced this is quite easy to drink. Though a very good wine, I was missing the edges of a character. Maybe too perfect?

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  12/9/2018 - markcic Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I had given my daughter 4 bottles to take to their annual Friendsgiving dinner and they all raved about it so I had to try a bottle. Opened about an hour before dinner. The nose was fruit and hints of chocolate. The palate was plums, chocolate and a hint of spice. The finish was moderate to long and smooth.

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  6/12/2018 - forceberry wrote: 88 Points

  Tasted in a vertical of all the released vintages of Redoma from 1991 until 2009. A blend of mostly Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela and Tinto Cão along with a few dozen other varieties. Fermented and macerated in stone lagares and stainless steel vats, aged for 22 months in 228-liter French oak pièces (60%) and 2000-liter oak vats (40%). 13,5% alcohol, 5,13 g/l acidity, pH 3,6, free SO2 at the time of bottling 22 mg/l. Total production 30,940 bottles.
  
  Faintly translucent and subtly purple-hued ruby red color with a thin, moderately pale raspberry-red rim. Obviously quite bretty nose with a noticeably funky farmhouse note of animal, horse stable and phenolic smoke along with fruitier tones of succulent plummy fruit, a little bit of blackberry marmalade and a hint of earthy garrigue. Contrasting the previous vintages, the nose feels somewhat less expressive, but also almost devoid of pronounced woody aromatics that started to appear around the vintage 2000. The wine is full-bodied, rich and silky on the palate with dry, gentle and savory flavors of brambly boysenberries and fresh plums, some sweet liquorice, a little bit of developed pruney fruit, a hint of chocolatey oak and subtly animal nuances of leather and almost bitter, charred gamey character. Contrasting the surrounding vintages, this wine is remarkably smooth and mellow with its medium acidity and ripe and gentle medium tannins that contribute more to the rich texture of the wine than to its round structure. The finish is slightly warm with complex and slightly funky medium-long flavors of savory dark fruit, gamey note of iron, some sour cherry bitterness, a little bit of savory oak spice, light herbal character, a hint of brambly blackberries and a touch of bretty leather and phenolic spice.
  
  This wine really stood out stylistically from the other 2000's vintages as the only one that was funky - the rest were much more polished and modern in style with no noticeable rustic character. I really enjoyed the funky complexity of the wine, which made it a lot more interesting than those that were more polished, sweeter and oak-driven. However, overall the wine seemed less impressive with its soft, unassuming tannins and rather modest acidity making it feel a bit dull and at times somewhat flabby, lacking a lot of that vital freshness. This wine was a crowd favorite because of its characterful funk, but to me this wine was just a bit too soft and mellow, lacking a bit oomph that is typical of Redoma; whereas the more modern and oakier vintages might turn out wonderful if given more age, I have my doubts whether this wine will age gracefully much longer. I guess on its own this wine would've been just lovely, but now it suffered in contrast to the more structured and muscular vintages.

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