The Winery Marusan of Yamanashi-ken

Winery Marusan
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.1.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Winery Marusan is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Marusan wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Marusan

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Marusan

How Winery Marusan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or pork such as recipes of calamari with chorizo, lamb with okra sauce or pork colombo.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Marusan

  • 2018With an average score of 3.00/5

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

  • Koshu
  • Chardonnay

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 Marusan

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Marusan

How Winery Marusan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of navarin of lamb, roast venison with green pepper sauce or pumpkin and onion gratin with comté cheese.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Marusan

  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.00/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Muscat Bailey A

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Marusan

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 Marusan.

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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 bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Winery Marusan and wines from the region

Sussex wine producers celebrate after earning PDO status

Producers including Rathfinny, Ridgeview and Bolney embarked upon their quest to turn Sussex into an appellation back in 2015. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has now finally recognised Sussex wine as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO). It will enter the register on 5 July, 2022, giving Sussex wine the same legal status as Jersey Royal potatoes, Cornish clotted cream and Stilton cheese. Mark Driver, the former hedge fund manager who set up Rathfinny Wine Estat ...

Decanter guide to picnicking for wine lovers

According to lifestyle and happiness guru Gretchen Rubin, you ‘bring your own weather to a picnic’. Ms Rubin, I’d suggest, has never shivered under a tree watching raindrops turn her fish-paste sandwich to mush because the weather forecast was wrong. There are, it’s safe to say, picnics and Picnics. It’s a term that takes in everything from a rubber baguette in a French ‘Aire’ off the Autoroute du Soleil to a four-course spread while listening to opera at Glyndebourne. What’s definitely true is ...

Decanter magazine latest issue: January 2022

Inside the January 2022 issue of Decanter Magazine: FEATURES: Aperitifs: how to do them well The art of starting it right, with drinks tips from Kate Hawkings Vintage preview: Chablis 2020 Andy Howard MW picks 33 of his top wines from a classic year in the region Producer profile: Château Angélus Jane Anson visits one of St-Emilion’s four finest grand cru classé estates Bordeaux & Burgundy vintages for Christmas Panos Kakaviatos & Charles Curtis MW select the perfect vintages and appe ...

The word of the wine: Trader-breeder

In the major wine regions, the négociant does not simply buy and resell the wines but, from very young wines, carries out all the maturing operations until bottling.