The Winery Soryu is one of the world's great estates. It offers 49 wines for sale in of Yamanashi-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Soryu wines in Yamanashi-ken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Soryu 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 Soryu wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Soryu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef bourguignon in the oven of nanou, uzbek pilaf or roast duck breast or duck fillet with dried apricots.
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 Soryu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish or lean fish such as recipes of scallops with chorizo sauce or fish soup.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Soryu. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or microbio and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Soryu. is a .
It is the result of a seedling planted in the United States, around 1840, recovered near the Concord River, a small river located east of Massachusetts. According to genetic analysis, it is an interspecific cross between the catawba and a vitis labrusca. Concord was for a long time the main variety cultivated in North America. It was introduced into Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, in France at the beginning of the phylloxera crisis, but was not widely propagated. It could be found in the Valleraugue region (Gard) at the foot of Mont Aigoual, in the Ardèche (our photos), etc. Today, it exists only as an isolated strain that can sometimes be found on the edge of a slope, which was our case. Through various and numerous crosses, it has been used to obtain some rootstocks and direct producer hybrids, which have now almost all disappeared.
How Winery Soryu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Said of a wine that is soft and caressing in the mouth.
How Winery Soryu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Soryu. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
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.
How Winery Soryu wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Unlike pumping over, the liquid part is completely removed from the tank before being poured over the marc. This allows for a better mixing of the solid particles and the juice.
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 Soryu.
