The Winery Izutsu of Nagano-ken

Winery Izutsu
The winery offers 39 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 19 of the estates of Nagano-ken.
It is located in Nagano-ken

The Winery Izutsu is one of the world's great estates. It offers 39 wines for sale in of Nagano-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Izutsu wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Izutsu

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Izutsu

How Winery Izutsu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of wild boar bourguignon, spaghetti neapolitan style or zucchini and goat cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Izutsu

On the nose the white wine of Winery Izutsu. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Izutsu

  • 2020With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.59/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.39/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Kerner
  • Niagara
  • Pinot Blanc
  • Ryugan
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Nagano-ken

Junmai (pure sake) literally translates to "pure rice". It is a high-quality class of sake, a rice-based Alcoholic beverage that is an intricate Part of Japanese culture. In order to be classified as Junmai sake, the beverage must be made with only rice, water, and koji, the mold that triggers Fermentation. Sake can be found in a variety of types and styles, each with its own Organoleptic properties.

Like wine, sake can taste different depending on the origin of rice used, where it was produced, the degree of rice polishing, the water source, the brewing process as well as how the sake is filtered post-fermentation. To make Junmai sake, the polished rice is cooked, and then mixed with Yeast">yeast and koji, a filamentous fungus . The koji converts the starch in rice to fermentable sugar, while the yeast simultaneously converts the sugar into alcohol. This process of multiple parallel fermentations is Complex: if the koji doesn't convert the rice to sugar quickly enough, the yeast will die, and conversely, if there is too much sugar at once, it overpowers the yeast and stops fermentation.

Over the course of about a month, more rice, koji and water is added to the mixture until the sake finishes fermenting. Since the process of multiple parallel fermentations can leave alcohol levels of 20 percent or higher, water is usually added to achieve the desired alcohol level. Before 2003, Japanese law stipulated that the rice must be polished down to below 70 percent of its original mass, a process called Seimai Buai. The process is done to remove the bran, creating a purer form of sake.

The top pink wines of Winery Izutsu

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Izutsu

How Winery Izutsu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of cicadas at the chib or duck aiguillettes with basalmic.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Izutsu

  • 0With an average score of 2.87/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Izutsu.

  • Niagara
  • Merlot

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.

The top red wines of Winery Izutsu

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Izutsu

How Winery Izutsu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of roast monkfish with bacon, moroccan style leg of lamb or saka-saka.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Izutsu

On the nose the red wine of Winery Izutsu. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Izutsu

  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.45/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.39/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Concord
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Muscat Bailey A

The word of the wine: Racé

Character of a great wine remarkable for its elegance and finesse.

The top sweet wines of Winery Izutsu

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Izutsu

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

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Izutsu

  • 0With an average score of 3.42/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Izutsu.

  • Muscat Bailey A

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Izutsu

Planning a wine route in the of Nagano-ken? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Izutsu.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot blanc

Pinot Blanc is a grape variety that originated in Burgundy, mutated from Pinot Gris. Today, it is grown in Alsace where it is called klevner when blended with auxerrois. The continental climate, with its cold winters and hot summers, is particularly suited to pinot blanc. It is resistant to frost in winter and in summer, the roots draw the minerals it needs from the warm soil. Its bunches are made up of small berries with thick skins and melting pulp that produce fruity, spicy wines, balanced between acidity and alcohol. pinot blanc is also used for crémants and sparkling wines. Pinot Blanc is also used for Crémant and sparkling wines. It is widely grown in Italy, where it covers almost 7,000 hectares, and is also found in Germany, Austria, Canada and South Africa.