The Winery Takayashiro of Nagano-ken

Winery Takayashiro - Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot
The winery offers 26 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.1.
It is ranked in the top 529 of the estates of Nagano-ken.
It is located in Nagano-ken

The Winery Takayashiro is one of the best wineries to follow in Nagano-ken.. It offers 26 wines for sale in of Nagano-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Takayashiro wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Takayashiro

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Takayashiro

How Winery Takayashiro wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of chili con carne, berber giblet frying pan or roast deer my grandmother's way.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Takayashiro

  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 2.30/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Nagano-ken

Junmai (pure sake) literally translates to "pure rice". It is a high-quality class of sake, a rice-based Alcoholic beverage that is an intricate Part of Japanese culture. In order to be classified as Junmai sake, the beverage must be made with only rice, water, and koji, the mold that triggers Fermentation. Sake can be found in a variety of types and styles, each with its own Organoleptic properties.

Like wine, sake can taste different depending on the origin of rice used, where it was produced, the degree of rice polishing, the water source, the brewing process as well as how the sake is filtered post-fermentation. To make Junmai sake, the polished rice is cooked, and then mixed with Yeast">yeast and koji, a filamentous fungus . The koji converts the starch in rice to fermentable sugar, while the yeast simultaneously converts the sugar into alcohol. This process of multiple parallel fermentations is Complex: if the koji doesn't convert the rice to sugar quickly enough, the yeast will die, and conversely, if there is too much sugar at once, it overpowers the yeast and stops fermentation.

Over the course of about a month, more rice, koji and water is added to the mixture until the sake finishes fermenting. Since the process of multiple parallel fermentations can leave alcohol levels of 20 percent or higher, water is usually added to achieve the desired alcohol level. Before 2003, Japanese law stipulated that the rice must be polished down to below 70 percent of its original mass, a process called Seimai Buai. The process is done to remove the bran, creating a purer form of sake.

The top white wines of Winery Takayashiro

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Takayashiro

How Winery Takayashiro wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pork colombo, papillotes of simple salmon steaks or zucchini quiche.

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Riesling
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Takayashiro

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Takayashiro

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

The word of the wine: Rafle (taste of)

A taste considered a defect, characterized by an unpleasant astringency and bitterness, brought by the stalk during the vinification process. In order to avoid it, destemming before vinification is a common practice.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Takayashiro

Planning a wine route in the of Nagano-ken? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Takayashiro.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Takayashiro and wines from the region

Canada’s Okanagan Valley approves six new sub-appellations

Canada’s western province of British Columbia (BC), has approved six new sub-appellations for its most famous wine-growing region of Okanagan Valley. The Okanagan Valley is BC’s largest appellation – called Geographical Indications (GIs) in Canada. And from a standing start in 2015, it now has 11 sub-GIs following the recent ratification. The six new sub-GIs are: Summerland Valleys, Summerland Lakefront, Summerland Bench, East Kelowna Slopes, South Kelowna Slopes and Lake Country. They are now l ...

Tributes paid to Paul Pender

Canada’s wine community is mourning the sudden loss of beloved Ontario winemaker Paul Pender. Passing away at the age of just 54, Pender died ‘unexpectedly under tragic circumstances’ on 4 February, 2022, as announced by sister wineries Tawse and Redstone.    Before becoming director of viticulture and winemaking at Tawse and Redstone, he was a carpenter. When he developed an allergy to the dust and solvents, he went back to school to study winemaking at Niagara College in 2004. Pender’s interns ...

Best English rosés for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Pale salmon in colour, a basket full of freshly-picked summer berries backed by the tell-tale, mouth-watering English acidity – these pink delights are wines made for summer and glorious celebrations. In fact, rosé is likely to become ‘one of the most important styles made in Britain over the next 10 to 20 years,’ as Oz Clark put it in his 2020 book on English wines*. The top examples of English sparkling rosés tend to be made mainly from the red Champagne grapes using the traditional method, wi ...

The word of the wine: Rafle (taste of)

A taste considered a defect, characterized by an unpleasant astringency and bitterness, brought by the stalk during the vinification process. In order to avoid it, destemming before vinification is a common practice.