Bairrada Tinto Lagar de Baixo

Niepoort

Bairrada Tinto Lagar de Baixo

Producer
Niepoort

Country
Portugal

Region
Bairrada

Sub-Region
Cantanhede

Appellation
Bairrada DOC

Farming
Sustainable, Organic, Biodynamic, Vegan

Varietals
100% Baga

Vineyards & Viticulture
With the acquisition of the Quinta de Baixo in 2012, Niepoort was able to convert the property to biodynamic principles over two years. The result is a combination of very old vines and younger vines.

Soils
Calcareous clay

Harvest & Vinification
Grapes are manually harvested. The wine was fermented in open lagares for four weeks before completing its fermentation process in large, used 2500 L vats. In these same vats, the wine went through malolactic fermentation and a maturation period of 20 months before it was bottled unfiltered.