Niepoort - 'Nat Cool White' - Azal, Arinto, Avesso, Trajadura, Loureiro - Vinho Verde, PT - 2024

Satellite's Hot Take

Fresh, mineral, textured - a subtle and adoration-worthy wine that is every little bit perfect. Verrrry cool!

Notes from the Winery/Importer

The wine was made according to the old-fashioned methods: native yeast and a few grams of sugar were retained in the wine so that it would ferment again in bottle. Malolactic fermentation also took place in bottle . Vineyards & Viticulture Nat Cool is about producing low-intervention, terroir driven wines from indigenous varietals. The grapes are grown in two areas of Vinho Verde: Amarante and Lousada. The vines are on average 25-30 years old. Soils Granite

Notes on the Producer

By light and easy-to-drink wines we mean wines with lower alcohol levels, where other elements, such as the aroma, mouthfeel, clarity and colour of the wine, are given pride of place. Examples include the red “Drink Me”, produced in Bairrada, and the white “Drink Me”, which stems from the Vinho Verde region. These wines do not claim to be the best in the world, but they are the ones you will enjoy drinking time and time again because they provide unencumbered drinking pleasure.