The best wines of Nagano-ken
Discover the best wines of Nagano-ken as well as the best winemakers of Nagano-ken and estates of Nagano-ken to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Nagano-ken and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Looking for a good wine of Nagano-ken among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Nagano-ken. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Nagano-ken with technical and enological descriptions.
Want to buy a red wine of Nagano-ken cheap or sell a red wine of Nagano-ken at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Red wines from the region of Nagano-ken go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of chickpeas spanish style, leg of lamb with herb stuffing or chicken drumstick with bacon.
On the nose the red wine of the region of Nagano-ken. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, non oak or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, red fruit or cigar.
Junmai (pure sake) literally translates to "pure rice". It is a high-quality class of sake, a rice-based Alcoholic beverage that is an intricate Part of Japanese culture. In order to be classified as Junmai sake, the beverage must be made with only rice, water, and koji, the mold that triggers Fermentation.
Sake can be found in a variety of types and styles, each with its own Organoleptic properties.
Like wine, sake can taste different depending on the origin of rice used, where it was produced, the degree of rice polishing, the water source, the brewing process as well as how the sake is filtered post-fermentation.
To make Junmai sake, the polished rice is cooked, and then mixed with Yeast">yeast and koji, a filamentous fungus . The koji converts the starch in rice to fermentable sugar, while the yeast simultaneously converts the sugar into alcohol. This process of multiple parallel fermentations is Complex: if the koji doesn't convert the rice to sugar quickly enough, the yeast will die, and conversely, if there is too much sugar at once, it overpowers the yeast and stops fermentation.
Over the course of about a month, more rice, koji and water is added to the mixture until the sake finishes fermenting. Since the process of multiple parallel fermentations can leave alcohol levels of 20 percent or higher, water is usually added to achieve the desired alcohol level.
Before 2003, Japanese law stipulated that the rice must be polished down to below 70 percent of its original mass, a process called Seimai Buai. The process is done to remove the bran, creating a purer form of sake.
Want to buy a white wine of Nagano-ken cheap or sell a white wine of Nagano-ken at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
White wines from the region of Nagano-ken go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pigeon with bacon and mushrooms, irish tartiflette or nanie's diced ham quiche.
On the nose the white wine of the region of Nagano-ken. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices.
Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.
Want to buy a sparkling wine of Nagano-ken cheap or sell a sparkling wine of Nagano-ken at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Sparkling wines from the region of Nagano-ken go well with generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal paupiettes with cider, pizza cone or duck breast and roasted peaches.
Said of a wine that leaves its mark on the palate with its strong characters and a hint of acidity, but without excess.
Want to buy a pink wine of Nagano-ken cheap or sell a pink wine of Nagano-ken at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Pink wines from the region of Nagano-ken go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of sea bass wrapped in salt crust, seafood pie or savoyard fondue with tomato.
On the nose the pink wine of the region of Nagano-ken. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.
It is the result of a seedling planted in the United States, around 1840, recovered near the Concord River, a small river located east of Massachusetts. According to genetic analysis, it is an interspecific cross between the catawba and a vitis labrusca. Concord was for a long time the main variety cultivated in North America. It was introduced into Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, in France at the beginning of the phylloxera crisis, but was not widely propagated. It could be found in the Valleraugue region (Gard) at the foot of Mont Aigoual, in the Ardèche (our photos), etc. Today, it exists only as an isolated strain that can sometimes be found on the edge of a slope, which was our case. Through various and numerous crosses, it has been used to obtain some rootstocks and direct producer hybrids, which have now almost all disappeared.
Want to buy a sweet wine of Nagano-ken cheap or sell a sweet wine of Nagano-ken at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Sweet wines from the region of Nagano-ken go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or pork such as recipes of borscht (russia), duck with orange or beef carrots.
On the nose the sweet wine of the region of Nagano-ken. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit.
Said of an odor reminiscent of musk.
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