The Winery Overseas is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Overseas wines in Yamanashi-ken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Overseas 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 Overseas wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Overseas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of turkey ballotine, andouillette and baked potato gratin or stuffed rabbit in the oven.
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 Overseas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of spaghetti bolognese, kapama of lamb (traditional bosnian dish) or butternut and goat cheese gratin.
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.
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