The Winery Heidee of Yamanashi-ken

Winery Heidee
The winery offers 28 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Winery Heidee is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 28 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Heidee wines

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

The top sparkling wines of Winery Heidee

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Heidee

How Winery Heidee wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or pork such as recipes of mie goreng, angry fried whiting or ideas for savoury pancake toppings.

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

  • Koshu
  • Chardonnay
  • Sémillon
  • Albariño

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 white wines of Winery Heidee

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Heidee

How Winery Heidee wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of macaroonade from sète, christmas salad or fish curry à la reunion.

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Seibel
  • Sémillon

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.

The top red wines of Winery Heidee

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Heidee

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Heidee

  • 0With an average score of 3.11/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.10/5

The word of the wine: Thick

Said of a heavy, pasty wine lacking in finesse.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Heidee

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 Winery Heidee.

Discover the grape variety: Albarino

It is a Spanish variety, in Galicia to be precise, with its cradle in the Rias Baixas area, around Pontevedra and up to Orense. It would be a close relative of the Loureiro. Widely cultivated in Portugal, ... in France, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.