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 pork chops with potatoes, basque chicken with chorizo or roast venison with green pepper sauce.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Votano

  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 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

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 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 baked bread (tomato, mushroom, ham, cheese), salmon steak on a bed of leeks or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Kerner
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Votano

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 Votano.

Discover the grape variety: Kerner

Intraspecific crossing between frankenthal and riesling obtained in Germany in 1929 by August Karl Herold (1902/1973). In 1951 and by crossing it with the sylvaner, we obtained the juwel. It should be noted that there is a mutation of Kerner, discovered in 1974 and bearing the name of kernling, with grapes of pink-grey to red-grey colour at full maturity. Kerner can be found in Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan... practically unknown in France except in a few Moselle vineyards.

News about Winery Votano and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Leaf removal

Operation that consists in removing the leaves that form a screen between the sun and the grape.