1983 Niepoort Garrafeira

The 1983 Porto Garrafeira is from a category that's almost extinct and nowadays only Niepoort produces it, matured in oak, then in glass demijohn and later in bottle and sold much later. This is a very good old wine, with a little more time in barrel than the category usually is (this aged in barrel for 10 years), so it gets closer to the style of an aged Colheita with time in bottle. It's a little bit fatter and more concentrated than the Garrafeira should be, and it doesn't have the ethereal and Burgundian elegance that describes the category. This might be going through an awkward phase. It was put in glass demijohn in 1993 and then bottled in 2018. 1,660 bottles produced.