The Winery Votano of Nagano-ken

Winery Votano
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 55 of the estates of Nagano-ken.
It is located in Nagano-ken

The Winery Votano is one of the world's great estates. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Nagano-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Votano wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Votano

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Votano

How Winery Votano wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef pot-au-feu, quiche without eggs or lamb chops marinated with herbs.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Votano

  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.26/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Nagano-ken

Alpine wine prefecture of central Japan (Honshu), the 2nd national region, high-altitude vineyards (600-900 m). Signature Merlot of Kikyogahara: supple, precise reds with signature notes of plum, cherry, sweet herbs, cedar and a cocoa touch, round tannins and elegant freshness — rivalling the Bordeaux wines. Renowned broad, mineral Chardonnay, fine and silky Pinot Noir. Also historic hybrid grapes (Concord, Niagara).

Heart of the Japanese qualitative revival.

The top white wines of Winery Votano

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Votano

How Winery Votano wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of tagliatelle with carbonara, marmite dieppoise or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Votano

  • 0With an average score of 3.65/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Kerner
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Elegant reds, light in colour with silky tannins, showing strawberry, cherry and raspberry aromas, evolving to forest floor, mushroom and spice with age. Fresh acidity, delicate finish. Star of the Côte d'Or (Romanée-Conti, Chambertin, Volnay), pillar of Champagne (Blanc de Noirs) and signature of Oregon, Central Otago and Sonoma Coast. An early-ripening Burgundian variety, one of the world's greatest.

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Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Round and fleshy reds with a velvety texture, showing aromas of ripe plum, black cherry, cocoa and truffle notes with age. Supple tannins, generous alcohol, indulgent finish. Pillar of Libournais (Pomerol with Pétrus, Saint-Émilion with Cheval Blanc and Ausone) and signature of Super Tuscans, Italian Wales and Washington State. A cross of Cabernet Franc × Magdeleine Noire, France's most planted red variety.