A pleasant 30 minute walk from our B&B led us to L’Orient Winery (also called Shirayuri Winery).
We really struck gold with this one, as while we were wandering around the shop and tasting room the winery owner, Mr Takao Uchida, who was extremely friendly with everyone, started talking to us and was very interested that [...]
One of the largest and most famous wineries in Japan is Chateau Mercian and the Mercian Katsunuma Winery.
This is the Japanese wine you usually find in supermarkets and convenience stores throughout Japan. They tend to cover all price ranges from the cheapest, table/cooking wine to expensive vintage wine. Grace Winery on the other [...]
Just a little bit up the road past the Domaine Chateraise and the large Mercian Winery, up a small hill and situated on the corner of a small crossroads is the Soryu Winery.
A small winery that’s been here since 1899 according to the big sign on the front of the shop.
The shop is attached to [...]
I read today that the Yamanashi governor Shomei Yokouchi and a group of winery owners from Yamanashi Prefecture are currently promoting their Japanese Koshu white wines in Europe, starting off in London.
This reminded me of when my wife and I visited L’Orient Winery in Katsunuma, (the main city in Yamanashi prefecture) last summer and met [...]
The next winery on our tour of Katsunuma wineries in Japan was directly across the road from Domaine Chateraise, the Chanmoris Winery owned by the rather long named company Koshu Budou ShuHonPo.
Not sure what that translates as but Koshu Budou = Koshu Grapes, which are the only native grapes to Japan, and make up a [...]
