The Kusunoki Winery of Nagano-ken

Kusunoki Winery
The winery offers 41 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 53 of the estates of Nagano-ken.
It is located in Nagano-ken

The Kusunoki Winery is one of the world's great estates. It offers 41 wines for sale in of Nagano-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Kusunoki Winery wines

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

The top red wines of Kusunoki Winery

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Kusunoki Winery

How Kusunoki Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef lark, roast pork orloff or duck leg confit in cider.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Kusunoki Winery

On the nose the red wine of Kusunoki Winery. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Kusunoki Winery

  • 2015With an average score of 3.65/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.51/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Nagano-ken

Alpine wine prefecture of central Japan (Honshu), the 2nd national region, high-altitude vineyards (600-900 m). Signature Merlot of Kikyogahara: supple, precise reds with signature notes of plum, cherry, sweet herbs, cedar and a cocoa touch, round tannins and elegant freshness — rivalling the Bordeaux wines. Renowned broad, mineral Chardonnay, fine and silky Pinot Noir. Also historic hybrid grapes (Concord, Niagara).

Heart of the Japanese qualitative revival.

The top white wines of Kusunoki Winery

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Kusunoki Winery

How Kusunoki Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of veal cutlets with savoy tomme, steamed salmon marinated in herbs or quiche lorraine.

The best vintages in the white wines of Kusunoki Winery

  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.59/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Delaware
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon
  • Niagara
  • Riesling

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Round and fleshy reds with a velvety texture, showing aromas of ripe plum, black cherry, cocoa and truffle notes with age. Supple tannins, generous alcohol, indulgent finish. Pillar of Libournais (Pomerol with Pétrus, Saint-Émilion with Cheval Blanc and Ausone) and signature of Super Tuscans, Italian Wales and Washington State. A cross of Cabernet Franc × Magdeleine Noire, France's most planted red variety.

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Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.