The Winery Yamabe of Nagano-ken

Winery Yamabe - Barrel Ageing Chardonnay
The winery offers 17 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 130 of the estates of Nagano-ken.
It is located in Nagano-ken

The Winery Yamabe is one of the best wineries to follow in Nagano-ken.. It offers 17 wines for sale in of Nagano-ken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Yamabe wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Yamabe

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Yamabe

How Winery Yamabe wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of penne à la toscane, gravelax salmon or quiche without pastry.

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

  • Niagara
  • Chardonnay
  • Muscat Blanc
  • Delaware
  • Pinot Gris
  • Sémillon

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 red wines of Winery Yamabe

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Yamabe

How Winery Yamabe wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of delicious bourguignon or rabbit provencale (mario style).

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

  • Merlot
  • Concord

Discover the grape variety: Pinot gris

Pinot Gris is a grey grape variety mutated from Pinot Noir. It has its origins in Burgundy, where it is called pinot-beurot in reference to the colour of the grey robes worn by the monks of the region. Established in Alsace since the 17th century, pinot gris was called tokay until 2007. It is made up of bunches of small berries that vary in colour from pink to blue-grey. It is particularly well suited to the continental climate because it is resistant to the cold in winter and to spring frosts. This variety also likes dry limestone soils with plenty of sunshine in the summer. Pinot Gris is well suited to late harvesting or to the selection of noble grapes, depending on the year and the concentration of sugars in the berries. Pinot Gris wines are distinguished by their aromatic complexity of white fruits, mushrooms, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, etc., and their great finesse. In the Loire Valley, pinot gris is used in the Coteaux-d'Ancenis appellations. It gives dry or sweet wines with pear and peach aromas.

The top sweet wines of Winery Yamabe

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Yamabe

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

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Yamabe.

  • Niagara

The word of the wine: Groslot

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Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Yamabe

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 Yamabe.

    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.

    News about Winery Yamabe and wines from the region

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    The word of the wine: Groslot

    See grolleau.