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.
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.
How Akiu Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of meat and goat pie or wild rabbit with cider.
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.
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 cassoulet of yesteryear, steamed salmon marinated in herbs or light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream).
How Akiu Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
A defect in the wine reminiscent of the smell and taste of mouldy cork.
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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.
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A defect in the wine reminiscent of the smell and taste of mouldy cork.
