The Akiu Winery of Yamanashi-ken

Akiu Winery - Akiu Merlot
The winery offers 22 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.2.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Akiu Winery is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 22 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Akiu Winery wines

Looking for the best Akiu Winery wines in Yamanashi-ken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Akiu Winery wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Akiu Winery wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Akiu Winery

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Akiu Winery

How Akiu Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of wild boar stew in burgundy style or rabbit with leeks.

The best vintages in the red wines of Akiu Winery

  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Akiu Winery.

  • Merlot
  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Yamabudo
  • Steuben

Discovering the wine region of Yamanashi-ken

Yamanashi is the first Japanese Geographical Indication (GI) for wine. Established in 2013, it is situated in the prefecture of the same name. Yamanashi is promoted as the birthplace of Japanese wine production. The most prominent Grape varieties grown here are the indigenous vitis vinefera white grape variety Koshu, and the Japanese-bred pale red Hybrid Muscat Bailey A.

The latter makes Soft, Fruity reds, while Koshu Dry white wines tend to be Aromatic dry, crisp and citrussy. Koshu is thought to have been cultivated in the Yamanashi Prefecture for a thousand years or more. Genetic studies of the grape tend to support this. Of the 40 other permitted varieties, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are most prominent.

As of 2018 there are around 80 wineries. Nearly half of these are located arround Koshu City. The 670 hectares (1,655 acres) of vineyards in Yamanashi produce around 40 percent of Japan's entire grape wine output. The wine industry in its modern form dates back to the 1870s in Yamanashi.

The top white wines of Akiu Winery

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Akiu Winery

How Akiu Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pork roll with mustard, salmon crumble or light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream).

The best vintages in the white wines of Akiu Winery

  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 2.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Akiu Winery.

  • Delaware
  • Chardonnay
  • Koshu
  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Muscat Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

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.

The top pink wines of Akiu Winery

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Akiu Winery

How Akiu Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the pink wines of Akiu Winery

  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Akiu Winery.

  • Steuben
  • Muscat Bailey A

The word of the wine: Gouleyant

Characteristic of supple and light wines, particularly new wines.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Akiu Winery

Planning a wine route in the of Yamanashi-ken? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Akiu Winery.

Discover the grape variety: Koshu

One of the oldest varieties cultivated in Japan, generally in arbors/pergolas, most often used as a table grape and recently vinified and associated with other varieties. It is a Vitis vinifera also known in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the United States... practically unknown in France.

News about Akiu Winery and wines from the region

Decanter’s Regional Editors pick out their top wines for Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

In the first part of this series, see the wines that the Decanter editorial team is most excited about tasting at the Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC on Saturday 18th June 2022. Amy Wislocki – Decanter Magazine Editor Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2019 At the end of every year at Decanter, we organise a ‘Wines of the Year‘ tasting. We ask our key contributors and editorial staff to pick out the wines that most impressed them during the year just gon ...

Rasteau, Cairanne & Vinsobres 2020: report and top-scoring wines

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Port Ellen and Brora casks to be auctioned by Sotheby’s

Part of the auction house’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the sale runs until next Tuesday, 14 June, and also includes one-off collaborations with artist Ini Archibong and photographer Trey Ratcliff. The two refill American oak hogshead casks, supplied from Diageo’s Casks of Distinction VIP private cask purchase programme, both have pre-sale estimates of £700,000-1.2m. The Port Ellen cask was filled on 15 February 1979, has a current strength of 52.9% abv and is estimated to hold 102 bottles. T ...

The word of the wine: Gouleyant

Characteristic of supple and light wines, particularly new wines.