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 homemade beef stew, duck stew with cahors wine or guinea fowl with olives.
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 cabbage casserole, potato and smoked salmon gratin or zucchini quiche.
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 .
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 pan-fried black pudding with apples, smoked salmon pasta gratin or light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream).
On the nose the sparkling wine of Château Mercian. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, citrus fruit.
Said of a wine whose acidity is the dominant characteristic, making it fresh and nervous.
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 tagine with prunes and almonds, wild boar stew or lamb tagine with preserved lemons and onion compote with....
On the nose the pink wine of Château Mercian. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, red fruit.
It is a Spanish variety, in Galicia to be precise, with its cradle in the Rias Baixas area, around Pontevedra and up to Orense. It would be a close relative of the Loureiro. Widely cultivated in Portugal, ... in France, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.
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.
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.
