The Kusunoki Winery of Nagano-ken

Kusunoki Winery - Beaux Lieux
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 puchero, pork gyros or duckling with bigarrade.

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
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2012With 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

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 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 endives with ham, fresh salmon risotto or nanie's diced ham quiche.

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
  • 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: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Kusunoki Winery

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 Kusunoki Winery.

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.

News about Kusunoki Winery and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: INAO

National Institute of Origin and Quality. French organization depending on the Ministry of Agriculture and in charge of quality signs: AOC, IGP, labels and organic farming.