Winery HirakawaHèritage Cuvée Gastronomique
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Discover the grape variety: Tannat meunier
This grape variety is found in southwestern France. It is a natural mutation of Tannat, so its resemblance is normal and only its very white down differentiates it. It is practically not propagated... another example of such a mutation, meunier or pinot meunier. - Synonymy: no synonym to date (for all the synonyms of grape varieties, click here!).
Informations about the Winery Hirakawa
The Winery Hirakawa is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 29 wines for sale in the of Hokkaidō-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Hokkaidō-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.
News related to this wine
Glenfiddich launches rare Time Re:Imagined whisky collection
Glenfiddich has released a range of three luxury single malts, themed around time. The Time Re:Imagined collection includes 30-year-old, 40-year-old and 50-year-old expressions, priced from £900 up to £35,000. The whiskies have been matured in Speyside. Each one is presented in packaging designed to interpret different concepts of time. ‘In whisky production, we often talk about the role of malt masters and it is our responsibility to find the delicate balance between the taste of the whisky and ...
Shirakawa 1958 single malt set for release
Shirakawa 1958 is the only official single malt bottling from the demolished distillery, and is also said to be the earliest single vintage Japanese whisky bottled to date, although part of its back story remains shrouded in mystery. The whisky was distilled at the Shirakawa distillery, located 200km north of Tokyo, in 1958, and survived an era when Shirakawa’s malt whisky was almost all used in owner Takara Shuzo’s flagship ‘King’ blend. Shirakawa was opened in Fukushima Prefecture by previous ...
Rhône 2021: best value wines
Severe frost in early April wreaked havoc across both the northern and southern appellations of the Rhône Valley in 2021, with many producers losing a large majority of their crop. The reds that did materialise tend towards lean, green flavours, because grapes struggled to ripen. A few producers struck lucky, with late-budding varieties or pockets of vineyard less affected by frost. But overall, it is the whites that really shine, showing freshness, precision and longevity. St-Joseph, Vacqueyras ...
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
