Niepoort Charme Tinto, Douro 2023

It's a great privilege to be one of a handful of sellers of this most magnificent of fine wines from the Douro in Portugal.  To boot, it is also wonderful that the much fêted Portuguese restaurant in Charlotte Street - Lisboeta - features the Niepoort family of wines, hence allowing me to show you a really rare 'restaurant wine at home'. 

Charme is a rare Douro wine. Its elegance and complexity combined with soft and ripe tannins are a unique manner in which to express very old vines, the freshest and most sheltered of the Mendiz Valley, in the heart of the river Pinhão valley.

Charme is the ultimate interpretation of Dirk Niepoort’s strong passion for the Burgundy region. A signature wine, a unique wine. Charme is the only still wine produced in the Vale de Mendiz winery in the historical round granite wine Lagares.

A little bit of history: Founded in 1842, Dutchman Franciscus Marius van der Niepoort emigrated to Portugal to begin his business as a port seller without land nor vineyards. 

Since 1987, Dirk has led the fifth generation of the family business to new heights. He is regarded as one of the most influential, innovative and pioneering winemakers in the Douro, paving the way for much of the success of Douro’s still wines.