The Asaya Winery of Yamanashi-ken

Asaya Winery - Asaya Special Wine
The winery offers 18 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.2.
It is ranked in the top 511 of the estates of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Asaya Winery is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 18 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Asaya Winery wines

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

The top white wines of Asaya Winery

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Asaya Winery

How Asaya Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish or lean fish such as recipes of scupion (small cuttlefish) in hot sauce or oven marinated swordfish.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Asaya Winery

On the nose the white wine of Asaya Winery. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Asaya Winery

  • 2018With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2010With an average score of 2.70/5

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

  • Koshu

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 red wines of Asaya Winery

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Asaya Winery

How Asaya Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef enchilladas au gratin or duck legs confit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Asaya Winery

  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.34/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Black Queen
  • Merlot

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 sparkling wines of Asaya Winery

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Asaya Winery

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

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

  • Muscat Bailey A

The word of the wine: Free-run wine

The free-run wine is the wine that flows out of the vat by gravity at the time of running off. The marc soaked in wine is then pressed to extract a rich and tannic wine. Free-run wine and press wine are then aged separately and eventually blended by the winemaker in proportions defined according to the type of wine being made.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Asaya 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 Asaya 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 Asaya Winery and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Free-run wine

The free-run wine is the wine that flows out of the vat by gravity at the time of running off. The marc soaked in wine is then pressed to extract a rich and tannic wine. Free-run wine and press wine are then aged separately and eventually blended by the winemaker in proportions defined according to the type of wine being made.