Discover the best wines of Yamagata-Ken as well as the best winemakers of Yamagata-Ken and estates of Yamagata-Ken to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Yamagata-Ken and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Looking for a good wine of Yamagata-Ken among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Yamagata-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 Yamagata-Ken with technical and enological descriptions.
Want to buy a red wine of Yamagata-Ken cheap or sell a red wine of Yamagata-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 Yamagata-Ken go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or veal such as recipes of veal shank with mushrooms, medallions of monkfish with citrus fruits or stuffed veal breast.
Prefecture of Tōhoku (Honshū, Japan) with 14 wineries along the Mogami river, sheltered by the Asahi and Ōu mountains, clay-gravel soils. Chardonnay and Merlot as international signatures: taut Chardonnay (citrus, apple, flowers, minerality) and supple Merlot (plum, black cherry, spices, fine tannins). Native Kōshū lively and delicate (citrus, flowers, cooked rice) and Riesling Lyon as whites. Tsuruoka Kōshū 2021 served at the Hiroshima G7.
Wines of Japanese precision.
Want to buy a white wine of Yamagata-Ken cheap or sell a white wine of Yamagata-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 Yamagata-Ken go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of reblochon tartiflette, braids of sole and salmon with morels or nanie's diced ham quiche.
Simple reds and rosés with a characteristic foxy flavour — clear ruby to pink, soft tannins, moderate acidity and labrusca-signature aromas of wild strawberry, candy, fresh grape and rustic muscat notes. Grown in the north-eastern United States and massively exported to Japan, where it is used for juice, simple wines and table grapes. A hybrid discovered in 1849 in Delaware, Ohio.
