Two Excellent Niepoorts

Niepoort Ten Year Old Dry White ****

Deep straw in colour; pleasing, savoury, old fashioned, lanolin, musky-casky aromas with honey too, on the way to tawny in style; savoury-sweet flavours, honey and brazil nuts. Top notch, the best in a very small class of cask-aged white Ports. 18

Niepoort 1983  ****

Mid-deep with a thin browning rim; lovely ripe, dark chocolate aromas, open but still with more to give; rich yet characteristically firm dry tannins, very well-structured, cast-iron backbone, bitter chocolate intensity, quite dry in style and evolving very well. Very reassuring wine: sweet and structured. A really good example from a rather variable vintage. 18