Niepoort, White Blend, Redoma Branco

This region’s powerful landscape invigorates the soul with views of steep vineyards that wind along the bluffs above the massive and breathtaking Douro River. Tightly planted vineyards sit on hillsides with slopes so steep, it’s hard to image vineyard teams tending to the vines safely. Yet somehow, they do, and the wines that are produced from these vines can be incredible. In this beautiful valley, Niepoort has been making enchanting Port and luscious still wines of tremendous quality for many years. Although the fifth generation of the Niepoort family is currently running the estate, their ancestral winegrowing and winemaking history in the Douro Valley dates back to 1842. Dirk van der Niepoort and his sister Verena have been in charge since 2005, and their 2012 Redoma Branco is a beautiful example of the high quality wine they produce with a strict biodynamic and organic approach to farming—which seems to bring incredible energy and life to their line-up of wines, whereas the wines