The Winery Ikeda of Yamanashi-ken

Winery Ikeda
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 57 of the estates of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Winery Ikeda is one of the world's great estates. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Ikeda wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Ikeda

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Ikeda

How Winery Ikeda wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish or lean fish such as recipes of chicken with scampi for christmas or salmon, shrimp and white fish puff pastry.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Ikeda

On the nose the white wine of Winery Ikeda. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or microbio. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Ikeda. is a .

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Ikeda

  • 2017With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.49/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.10/5

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

  • Koshu

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 red wines of Winery Ikeda

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Ikeda

How Winery Ikeda wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or lamb such as recipes of seven o'clock leg of lamb, my grandmother's rabbit stew or lamb tagine with figs.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Ikeda

  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.10/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discover the grape variety: Muscat Bailey A

The top sweet wines of Winery Ikeda

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Ikeda

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

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Ikeda

  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.00/5

The word of the wine: Discharge

Action consisting of removing suspended particles (sludge) from the must.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Ikeda

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Ikeda

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

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Ikeda

  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Koshu

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Ikeda

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Ikeda

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

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Ikeda

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Ikeda. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Ikeda

  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5

The word of the wine: Casting

Preparatory phase of the wine-making process consisting in bursting the grapes in order to release the juice.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Ikeda

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 Ikeda.

Discover the grape variety: Koshu

One of the oldest varieties cultivated in Japan, generally in arbors/pergolas, most often used as a table grape and recently vinified and associated with other varieties. It is a Vitis vinifera also known in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the United States... practically unknown in France.

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The word of the wine: Discharge

Action consisting of removing suspended particles (sludge) from the must.