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The Hill of Grapes, Katsunuma (ぶどうの丘）

MoIppai — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:40:44 +0000

On a hill overlooking Katsunuma is an onsen (spa) and wine tasting tourist centre called
Budou no oka – ぶどうの丘 or The Hill of Grapes in English, which we visited on our last day before heading home, and in hindsight perhaps it would have been better to go there first.

The View from the Hill of Grapes

We skipped the onsen, and after a quick lunch (and a local beer, the Katsunuma Kai Draft) to line the stomach we headed down to the tasting area in the cellar.
You pay about ￥1100 ($11) and as well as free reign in the cellar you also get a “tastevin” which is a small, silver saucer you wear round your neck to taste wines with, and which you can take home as a souvenir.
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Katsunuma Winery, Yamanashi, Japan

MoIppai — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:17:00 +0000

The last winery we visited in Katsunuma was the luckily named Katsunuma Winery.

Katsunuma Winery

I wonder if they opened their doors first or if there was a lottery to decide who could call their winery in Katsunuma City, Katsunuma Winery?
The same goes for Yamanashi Winery in Yamanashi Pefecture (the area where Katsunuma is situated).

Anyway, this winery is down a long, peaceful little residential road and appears on your left in a fairly non-descript building amongst the houses and other buildings.
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Yamanashi Winery, Katsunuma Japan

MoIppai — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:02:44 +0000

One of the last wineries we visited in Katsunuma was the small buy very friendly
Yamanshi Winery.

There are several reasons I would recommend seeking out this winery, the first being the marvellous old building the reception and tasting room is housed in and the very impressive tree growing outside it.

Yamanashi Winery

Japanese Tree

Inside is a small tasting area and attached to this is another small room containing old artifacts and objects related to wine and wine making.

The guy in charge on the day took us to the next building and showed us around their small but impressively old cellar.

Yamanashi Winery Cellar

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Grace Winery, Katsunuma, Japan

MoIppai — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:56:28 +0000

Grace Winery is one of the larger, more well-known and perhaps even more prestigious Japanese wineries with some of their wines included in the JAL First Class Wine list, so it was one our list of wineries to check out while we were touring Katsunuma.

Grace Winery, Katsunuma

The tasting room is on the first floor of an old(ish), ivy covered building just opposite the Asaya Winery with a nice view overlooking Katsunuma and the Grace Vineyards.

Grace Vineyards

Of all the wineries we visited this was probably the largest tasting room with a bar covering one entire wall and it was also the busiest – although at the time we visited that only meant about 20 people.
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Asaya Winery, Katsunuma, Japan

MoIppai — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:33:04 +0000

We were heading to Grace Winery, one of the larger and I guess more renowned Japanese wineries when we spotted a sign on the other side of the road for Asaya Winery.

So we decided to nip in there for a quick tasting first and we were very glad we did!

Asaya Winery Tasting Room

We were taken upstairs to the tasting room (it wasn’t very busy, there was one other couple waiting downstairs by the reception office for the lady to open up the room when we arrived) and a gorgeous room it was too.
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