The Winery Mukayu of Yamanashi-ken

Winery Mukayu - Shiro Koshu
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Winery Mukayu is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Mukayu wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Mukayu

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Mukayu

How Winery Mukayu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish or lean fish such as recipes of shrimp marinade or thai basil chicken.

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

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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.

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The word of the wine: Structure

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