The Winery Alps of Nagano-ken

Winery Alps - Musée du Vin Concord
The winery offers 70 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 10 of the estates of Nagano-ken.
It is located in Nagano-ken

The Winery Alps is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 70 wines for sale in of Nagano-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Alps wines

Looking for the best Winery Alps wines in Nagano-ken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Alps 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 Winery Alps wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Alps

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Alps

How Winery Alps wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of baked lasagna, tajine of mutton or monkfish with curry.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Alps

On the nose the red wine of Winery Alps. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, non oak or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, cigar or spices.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Alps

  • 1997With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.53/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.52/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.43/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.37/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.35/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Zweigelt
  • Tempranillo
  • Concord

Discovering the wine region of Nagano-ken

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.

The top white wines of Winery Alps

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Alps

How Winery Alps wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or pork such as recipes of clams in white wine, onigirazu or rabbit with hunter's sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Alps

On the nose the white wine of Winery Alps. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Alps

  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.24/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.23/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.09/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Niagara
  • Ryugan
  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Koshu
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Zweigelt

Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)

The top sparkling wines of Winery Alps

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Alps

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

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Alps.

  • Black Queen

The word of the wine: Prompt bud

A bud that develops in the year of its formation and gives an entrecoeur.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Alps

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

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Alps and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Prompt bud

A bud that develops in the year of its formation and gives an entrecoeur.