Niepoort - 'Nat Cool Red' - Baga - Bairrada, PT - 2024

Satellite's Hot Take

This wine is ideal - casual and at home on any table while perfectly aligning with food - because this wine is food and it pretty much goes with anything. And it's a liter!

Notes from the Winery/Importer

Vineyards & Viticulture Nat Cool is about producing low-intervention, terroir driven wines from indigenous varietals. Average vine age 40-100 years. Soils Calcareous clay Harvest & Vinification From various old vineyard blocks and was fermented in stainless steel for 5 weeks, with carbonic maceration. After undergoing malolactic fermentation and some ageing in these stainless steel tanks, the wine was bottled unfiltered.

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.