2002 Niepoort Douro Redoma

Community Tasting Notes (11) Median Score: 91 points

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  2/10/2024 - finewinebuff57 wrote: 92 Points

  A blend of mostly Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz (Aragonez, Tempranillo) Tinta Amarela (Trincadeira) and Tinto Cão along with a few dozen other varieties. Not the easiest year for Redoma but 20 plus years on the quality of the terroir and winemaking shine though. In excellent condition. Length and complexity.

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  7/10/2022 - CarpeDiem! Likes this wine: 92 Points

  The good old times when D. Niepoort's wines were still affordable and providing stunning value. This red blend of several autochton Portuguese varietals is impressive in complexity, expressiveness and balance. Intense, ripe red berries, plum, tobacco, caramel, roast aromas and a slightly floral touch make the tasting a rewarding journey. Bravo!. Hélas, my last bottle.

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  10/5/2020 - shelflife84 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Past it's prime, but opened up into a heavy, tannic, black plum and blueberry bomb.

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  6/12/2018 - forceberry wrote: 86 Points

  Tasted in a vertical of all the released vintages of Redoma from 1991 until 2009. A blend of mostly Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela and Tinto Cão along with a few dozen other varieties. Fermented and macerated over 10 days in stone lagares and stainless steel vats, aged for 16 months in 228-liter French oak pièces. 13% alcohol, 6,45 g/l acidity, pH 3,56, free SO2 at the time of bottling 39 mg/l. Total production 20,000 bottles.
  
  Almost completely opaque blackish-red color showing a subtle hint of mature mahogany hue with a luminous raspberry-red rim. The nose feels quite sweet and modern with rich aromas of dark-toned toasty oak, licorice root, some very ripe blackberries, a little bit of smoke, light mocha character and a hint of mulberry. Overall the nose feels quite complex, but also a bit of a modern crowdpleaser. The wine is full-bodied, dense and quite extracted on the palate with bold and rather ripe flavors of juicy dark fruits, sweet, toasty oak spice, some woody bitterness, a little bit of brambly blackberries and a hint of dark chocolate. Overall the wine feels pretty concentrated and chewy, but also slightly less ripe and more savory than the other early 2000's vintages of Redoma. The wine is pretty structured with its ample and quite grippy tannins and moderately high acidity. The finish is long, rich and dense with bold and quite savory flavors of liquorice, dark plums, spicy oak, some sour cherry bitterness, a little bit of smoke and a hint of earthy character.
  
  Although a bit lighter and less ripe than the other early 2000's vintages of Redoma, this was still quite big, powerful and extracted a red wine. Furthermore, at times it felt that this wine was woodier and more oak-driven than its peers - probably because of the slightly more restrained fruit character, letting the oak notes take on much more prominent role. Overall this is a pretty good Douro red and still some distance away from its plateau of maturity, but also somewhat less impressive than many other vintages of Redoma. I'd leave the wine in a cellar for some years - perhaps even for more than a decade - just in the hopes the oak character would fade away some more.

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  3/26/2016 - nwaller Likes this wine: 79 Points

  A little past it but pleasant enough

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