Celebrating one of the rarest, finest Port wines left in the world
The first ‘Niepoort in Lalique 1863 decanter’ to be auctioned in Hong Kong on 3 November 2018.
Two of Europe’s great heritage brands, Lalique and Niepoort, have come together for a ground-breaking collaboration - the Niepoort in Lalique 1863 decanters. Five exceptional demijohn decanters, each one engraved with a name from one of the five van der Niepoort generations and holding what is possibly the oldest fine wine in the world.
The first Niepoort Port created in 1863 by the first Niepoort generation, Francisco Marius van der Niepoort. The first of the five generation decanters, created in his honour, is to be auctioned by Acker Merrall & Condit on 3 November in Hong Kong.
Each decanter is signed Lalique, numbered and filled with the exceptionally rare 155-year-old vintage Port, from an original Niepoort demijohn decanter, filled in 1905 with the first 1863 Port in the Niepoort cellar in Porto, Portugal. Each decanter represents a generation of the Port wine dynasty from its foundation in 1842 by Franciscus Marius van der Niepoort up to Dirk van der Niepoort, the fifth generation, who runs the company today. Each generation has followed the other, working side by side, continuing to innovate whilst preserving the traditions and knowledge learned over centuries. The design of the decanter is based on the original 11-litre demijohn from 1905 created using one of the oldest glass production methods – a nod to the heritage of both Lalique and Niepoort - cire perdue or ‘lost wax’, a technique learned and passed down through the generations of skilled craftsmen and still used today at the Lalique factory in Alsace.