The Winery Shirayuri of Yamanashi-ken

Winery Shirayuri
The winery offers 40 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 120 of the estates of Yamanashi-ken.
It is located in Yamanashi-ken

The Winery Shirayuri is one of the best wineries to follow in Yamanashi-ken.. It offers 40 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Shirayuri wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Shirayuri

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Shirayuri

How Winery Shirayuri wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of monkfish tagine, rack of lamb with antiboise sauce or lentils and morteau sausages.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Shirayuri

  • 2020With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.37/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.24/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.23/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Muscat Bailey A
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

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 white wines of Winery Shirayuri

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Shirayuri

How Winery Shirayuri wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or pork such as recipes of shrimp with curry express, fillets of sole a la dieppoise or ham and cheese omelette.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Shirayuri

On the nose the white wine of Winery Shirayuri. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, earth or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Shirayuri. is a .

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Shirayuri

  • 2017With an average score of 3.52/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.28/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.22/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.16/5

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

  • Koshu
  • Niagara
  • Chardonnay
  • Delaware

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.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Shirayuri

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Shirayuri

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

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Shirayuri

  • 0With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Koshu

The word of the wine: Breeding

It can last for several years. The bottles are stacked in the cellars and waited for the light and heat. The yeasts gradually give the wine compounds that enrich it. A long maturation is a guarantee of quality.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Shirayuri

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 Shirayuri.

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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 bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.