The Domaine Ponkotsu is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Domaine Ponkotsu wines in Yamanashi-ken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine Ponkotsu 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 Domaine Ponkotsu wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Domaine Ponkotsu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
On the nose the white wine of Domaine Ponkotsu. often reveals types of flavors of citrus 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 Domaine Ponkotsu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of daube niçoise, savoyard crozet gratin or casserons in the country style.
How Domaine Ponkotsu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of boles de picolat (catalan meatballs), lamb chops marinated with herbs or aiguillettes of duck with auvergne blue cheese.
On the nose the red wine of Domaine Ponkotsu. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
Term that characterizes a hard and tannic wine.
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It is the result of a seedling planted in the United States, around 1840, recovered near the Concord River, a small river located east of Massachusetts. According to genetic analysis, it is an interspecific cross between the catawba and a vitis labrusca. Concord was for a long time the main variety cultivated in North America. It was introduced into Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, in France at the beginning of the phylloxera crisis, but was not widely propagated. It could be found in the Valleraugue region (Gard) at the foot of Mont Aigoual, in the Ardèche (our photos), etc. Today, it exists only as an isolated strain that can sometimes be found on the edge of a slope, which was our case. Through various and numerous crosses, it has been used to obtain some rootstocks and direct producer hybrids, which have now almost all disappeared.
