The Winery Villa d'Est is one of the best wineries to follow in Nagano-ken.. It offers 20 wines for sale in of Nagano-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Villa d'Est wines in Nagano-ken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Villa d'Est 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 Villa d'Est wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Villa d'Est wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of quiche lorraine, toasted bagel with smoked salmon or risotto of the sea.
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.
How Winery Villa d'Est wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or veal such as recipes of korean bibimbap, grandma melanie's cassoulet or braised veal heart with carrots.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Villa d'Est. 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.
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