Charme 2023

Niepoort Charme 2023

Charme is an elegant, complex wine with soft, enveloping tannins, the result of a short maceration of the whole bunches in the press. This is a critically acclaimed wine where Dirk Niepoort's Charme is his interpretation of his great passion for the Burgundy region. Charme is the only still wine produced in the Vale de Mendiz winery, in round granite lagares.

Vinification

The harvest at Vale de Mendiz began under extremely hot conditions on 24 August, with the last grapes arriving on 26 September. The whole bunches were lightly trodden in granite lagares. The most important period in this winemaking process is the pre-fermentation maceration time and the start of alcoholic fermentation, where extraction is very short but intense. The fermentation of Charme is initially carried out in lagares and then the process is completed in barriques. It is aged in French oak barrels for 15 months

Tasting notes (Robert Parker)

’... It is a floral and herbaceous wine, fragrant, elegant, fine-boned and balanced, with an elegant profile. It has fantastic balance and should age gracefully. It follows the path of 2019 and 2021. 14,000 bottles produced."

Grape varieties: Tinta Roriz, Touriga Franca, and others