The Château Mercian is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 105 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Mercian wines in Yamanashi-ken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Mercian 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 Château Mercian wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Mercian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or veal such as recipes of beef miroton, duck baeckeoffe with christmas spices and dried fruits or veal blanquette burger.
On the nose the red wine of Château Mercian. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, oaky or citrus and sometimes also flavors of minerality, strawberries or lemon.
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.
How Château Mercian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of roast pork with milk, niçoise salad or quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo.
On the nose the white wine of Château Mercian. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, citrus or green apple and sometimes also flavors of minerality, lemon or earth. In the mouth the white wine of Château Mercian. is a .
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.
How Château Mercian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pasta carbonara, salmon cannelloni or nanie's diced ham quiche.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Château Mercian. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, citrus fruit.
See chenin blanc.
How Château Mercian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or lamb such as recipes of beef tagliata with truffle oil, roast duck breast stuffed with foie gras confit or lamb chops marinated with herbs.
On the nose the pink wine of Château Mercian. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, red fruit.
Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
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 Château Mercian.
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.
