The Winery Hirakawa of Hokkaid&#333-ken

Winery Hirakawa
The winery offers 43 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 40 of the estates of Hokkaidō-ken.
It is located in Hokkaid&#333-ken

The Winery Hirakawa is one of the world's great estates. It offers 43 wines for sale in of Hokkaid&#333-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Hirakawa wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Hirakawa

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Hirakawa

How Winery Hirakawa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of mackerel fillets (quick bake), marinated shrimp sautéed asian style or quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Hirakawa

  • 2019With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Kerner
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Hokkaid&#333-ken

The wine region of Hokkaidō-ken of Japan. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Yoichi Wine or the Domaine Takahiko produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Hokkaidō-ken are Pinot noir, Kerner and Zweigelt, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Hokkaidō-ken often reveals types of flavors of cherry, plum or tropical fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, minerality or green apple.

We currently count 46 estates and châteaux in the of Hokkaidō-ken, producing 336 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Hokkaidō-ken go well with generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or mature and hard cheese.

The top red wines of Winery Hirakawa

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Hirakawa

How Winery Hirakawa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of lamb shoulder confit, pork roll with mustard or lasagne with vegetables and savoy tomatoes.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Hirakawa

  • 2015With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.63/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.43/5

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

  • Regent
  • Zweigelt

Discover the grape variety: Regent

A complex interspecific cross between the diana (sylvaner x Müller-Thurgau) and the chambourcin obtained in Germany in 1967 by Gerhardt Alleweldt. It can be found in Quebec (Canada), Belgium and Switzerland, but is little known in France. It should be noted that Regent, a monogenic variety, which is nevertheless resistant to certain cryptogamic diseases, was "bypassed" in 2010 by a less resistant strain of mildew, which was also the case for bianca.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Hirakawa

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Hirakawa

How Winery Hirakawa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal saltimbocca, cantonese rice or saddle of hare jura style.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Hirakawa

  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Bacchus
  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Collar

The upper, cylindrical part of the bottle. Sales of wine bottles are generally expressed in number of bottles.

The top pink wines of Winery Hirakawa

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Hirakawa

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

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Hirakawa

  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.40/5

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Hirakawa

Planning a wine route in the of Hokkaid&#333-ken? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Hirakawa.

Discover the grape variety: Kerner

Intraspecific crossing between frankenthal and riesling obtained in Germany in 1929 by August Karl Herold (1902/1973). In 1951 and by crossing it with the sylvaner, we obtained the juwel. It should be noted that there is a mutation of Kerner, discovered in 1974 and bearing the name of kernling, with grapes of pink-grey to red-grey colour at full maturity. Kerner can be found in Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan... practically unknown in France except in a few Moselle vineyards.