Winery HirakawaHommage Grande Cuvée
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, pork or lamb.
Food and wine pairings with Hommage Grande Cuvée
Pairings that work perfectly with Hommage Grande Cuvée
Original food and wine pairings with Hommage Grande Cuvée
The Hommage Grande Cuvée of Winery Hirakawa matches generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of dad's lamb mouse, paupiettes with tomato sauce or epoisses fondue (cheese).
Details and technical informations about Winery Hirakawa's Hommage Grande Cuvée.
Discover the grape variety: Zweigelt
Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the 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.
The word of the wine: Long
Wine with persistence in the mouth. This persistence in the mouth of a wine is measured in caudalies.
