The Winery Olifant is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Olifant wines in Yamanashi-ken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Olifant 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 Olifant wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Olifant wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or vegetarian such as recipes of beef in white wine, beef colombo bourguignon style or ham and comté quiche.
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 Winery Olifant wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of vegetarian lasagna, zucchini and goat cheese quiche or stuffed artichoke.
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 Olifant.
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.
