The Winery Okunota of Yamanashi-ken

Winery Okunota
The winery offers 28 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 31 of the estates of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Winery Okunota is one of the world's great estates. It offers 28 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Okunota wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Okunota

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Okunota

How Winery Okunota wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or pork such as recipes of chipirons / squids with tomato (basque country), back of cod with chorizo and parmesan crumble or sauté of pork with chorizo.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Okunota

On the nose the white wine of Winery Okunota. often reveals types of flavors of green apple, orange or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or floral. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Okunota. is a .

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Okunota

  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.35/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.34/5

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

  • 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 Okunota

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Okunota

How Winery Okunota wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or lamb such as recipes of quick meatloaf, rabbit with cream sauce anne's way or moroccan lamb stew.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Okunota

  • 2016With an average score of 3.52/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.37/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.36/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.33/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Muscat Bailey A

The top pink wines of Winery Okunota

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Okunota

How Winery Okunota wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Okunota

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Okunota. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, floral.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Okunota

  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5

The word of the wine: Magnum

Bottle with a capacity of 1.5 litres.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Okunota

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Okunota

How Winery Okunota wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or pork such as recipes of american fillet (belgian-style beef tartar), gigolette of rabbit or the secrets of croque-monsieur.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Okunota

  • 2015With an average score of 3.57/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Okunota.

  • Koshu
  • Merlot
  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

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.

The top sweet wines of Winery Okunota

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Okunota

How Winery Okunota wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The word of the wine: Gouleyant

Characteristic of supple and light wines, particularly new wines.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Okunota

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 Okunota.

Discover the grape variety: Koshu

One of the oldest varieties cultivated in Japan, generally in arbors/pergolas, most often used as a table grape and recently vinified and associated with other varieties. It is a Vitis vinifera also known in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the United States... practically unknown in France.

News about Winery Okunota and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Magnum

Bottle with a capacity of 1.5 litres.