The Kai winery of Yamanashi-ken

Kai winery
The winery offers 19 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 191 of the estates of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Kai winery is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Kai winery wines

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

The top pink wines of Kai winery

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Kai winery

How Kai winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or poultry such as recipes of braised (green) cabbage, red mullet, mackerel, tuna, salmon sushi or chicken on a bed of summer vegetables.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Kai winery

  • 0With an average score of 3.24/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Kai winery.

  • Barbera
  • Merlot

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 Kai winery

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Kai winery

How Kai winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or poultry such as recipes of endives au gratin without béchamel sauce, fricassee of lambis or yakitori chicken (japanese).

The best vintages in the red wines of Kai winery

  • 2016With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.55/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.54/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Kai winery.

  • Merlot
  • Barbera

Discover the grape variety: Delaware

The top white wines of Kai winery

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Kai winery

How Kai winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish or lean fish such as recipes of festive sea pot or impromptu fish fillets with cream and shallots.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Kai winery

On the nose the white wine of Kai winery. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Kai winery. is a .

The best vintages in the white wines of Kai winery

  • 2012With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.57/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.49/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.45/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Kai winery.

  • Koshu

The word of the wine: Food and wine pairing

It is the set of techniques that allow for the pleasant combination of food and wine. Food and wine pairing is based on a few basic principles, such as similarity, complementarity or contrast, and involves all the elements that make up the wine and the food (flavours, textures, aromas, etc.).

The top sweet wines of Kai winery

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Kai winery

How Kai winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Kai winery

  • 0With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Kai winery.

  • 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 sparkling wines of Kai winery

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Kai winery

How Kai winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Kai winery.

  • Delaware

The word of the wine: Gluing

Method consisting in clarifying the wine and giving it a limpidity by incorporating a specific product.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Kai winery

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 Kai winery.

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.