The Winery Fukagawa of Nagano-ken

Winery Fukagawa - Assemblage Merlot - Muscat Bailey A
The winery offers 35 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Nagano-ken.
It is located in Nagano-ken
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The Winery Fukagawa is one of the best wineries to follow in Nagano-ken.. It offers 35 wines for sale in of Nagano-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Fukagawa wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Fukagawa

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Fukagawa

How Winery Fukagawa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or lamb such as recipes of tournedos rossini with port sauce, rabbit with green olives or mouse of lamb with thyme.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Fukagawa

  • 2018With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Steuben

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 sparkling wines of Winery Fukagawa

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Fukagawa

How Winery Fukagawa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of turkey roulades, flavoured sauce, quick smoked salmon croque-monsieur or spinach and goat cheese quiche.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Fukagawa

  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.67/5

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

  • Concord
  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Chardonnay
  • Delaware
  • Koshu
  • Niagara

Discover the grape variety: Concord

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.

The top white wines of Winery Fukagawa

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Fukagawa

How Winery Fukagawa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of oven roasted rabbit that cooks itself!, sea bass wrapped in salt crust or quiche without pastry.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Fukagawa

  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.22/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.00/5

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

  • Delaware
  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Niagara
  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Koshu

The word of the wine: Bâtonnage

A very old technique that has come back into fashion in modern oenology, which consists of shaking the white wine in the barrels at the end of fermentation, or after fermentation, with a stick or a flail, in order to suspend the fine lees composed of yeasts at the end of their activity. This process is sometimes used for red wines.

The top pink wines of Winery Fukagawa

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Fukagawa

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

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Fukagawa

  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Fukagawa.

  • Steuben

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Fukagawa

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 Fukagawa.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

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The word of the wine: Bâtonnage

A very old technique that has come back into fashion in modern oenology, which consists of shaking the white wine in the barrels at the end of fermentation, or after fermentation, with a stick or a flail, in order to suspend the fine lees composed of yeasts at the end of their activity. This process is sometimes used for red wines.