The Château Mars is one of the world's great estates. It offers 59 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Mars wines in Yamanashi-ken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Mars 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 Château Mars wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Mars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef marengo "my mom" style, lamb stew or express chicken skewers with spices.
On the nose the red wine of Château Mars. often reveals types of flavors of oak, spices or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, black fruit.
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 Château Mars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or pork such as recipes of sauerkraut of the sea in casserole, spanish fish soup or baked pumpkin.
On the nose the white wine of Château Mars. often reveals types of flavors of oak, non oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Château Mars. is a .
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.
How Château Mars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pork colombo, pasta with tuna and laughing cow or broccoli and blue cheese quiche without pastry.
Alcohol very present in wine (after ethyl alcohol) and which reinforces its unctuousness and fatty sensation.
How Château Mars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pasta bolognese, original mafé with okra or rabbit with tomato.
White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). 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 grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.
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 Château Mars.
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.
