The Winery Sakai of Yamanashi-ken

Winery Sakai
The winery offers 28 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 101 of the estates of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Winery Sakai is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 28 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Sakai wines

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

The top sweet wines of Winery Sakai

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Sakai

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

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Sakai.

  • Delaware

Discovering the wine region of Yamanashi-ken

Japanese winemaking heart at the foot of Mount Fuji, signature in Koshu. Identity-driven native white (~90% of Japanese plantings): delicate, precise dry whites with notes of citrus (yuzu, lime), green apple, white flowers and a slightly saline finish, low alcohol and great freshness. Ideal with sushi and Japanese cuisine. Also Chardonnay and Merlot in the altitude zones of Akeno.

Vineyards at 400-700 m on volcanic ash, climate with marked thermal swings.

The top red wines of Winery Sakai

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Sakai

How Winery Sakai wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of alsatian bäckeoffe, doner kebab or monkfish with curry.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Sakai

  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.92/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.57/5

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

  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Black Queen

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.

The top white wines of Winery Sakai

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Sakai

How Winery Sakai wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of tartiflette, papillotes of simple salmon steaks or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Sakai

On the nose the white wine of Winery Sakai. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Sakai

  • 2018With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.52/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.33/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.16/5

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

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  • Chardonnay
  • Koshu
  • Riesling

The word of the wine: Cordon de Royat (size in)

Short trellised pruning with one or two horizontal arms stretched over a wire. Very suitable for mechanization, it offers a very good exposure of the bunches as well as an excellent aeration.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Sakai

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Sakai

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

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Sakai

  • 0With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Delaware

Discover the grape variety: Koshu

Delicate, taut whites with a pale, slightly pinkish robe (grey-pink skin), an airy palate and fresh acidity, with subtle aromas of citrus (yuzu, grapefruit), green apple, white flowers, pear, almond and saline mineral notes. Slightly bitter, refined finish. Signature of the modern whites of Yamanashi (around Mount Fuji) and the locomotive of Japanese wine exports. Autochthonous hybrid variety (vinifera × vitis amurensis), cultivated in Japan for over a thousand years.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Sakai

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 Sakai.

Discover the grape variety: Muscat Bailey A

Supple, fruity reds with a moderate ruby robe, silky tannins and a direct palate, with signature Muscat aromas (fresh grape, rose), red fruits (cherry, strawberry), candy and hybrid herbal notes. A simple, early-ripening profile. Widely grown in Japan (Yamanashi, Nagano), it is the emblem of modern Japanese reds. Black hybrid grape created in 1927 by Zenbei Kawakami, a Bailey × Muscat Hamburg cross.