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L’Orient Winery, Katsunuma Japan

MoIppai — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:16:22 +0000

A pleasant 30 minute walk from our B&B led us to L’Orient Winery (also called Shirayuri Winery).

L'Orient 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 I was from England, as he and a some other winemakers in Katsunuma were heading to England to promote the regions wines in Britain.

He was also going to show a family around the vineyards and asked if we would like to tag along.
Of course we jumped at the chance!
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Chanmoris Winery, Katsunuma Japan

MoIppai — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:21:54 +0000

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 lot of Japanese wines.

Chanmoris Winery, Japan

It was out of season to visit wineries (mid August), at least so it seemed as the place was deserted and we were the only visitors (there was a couple of other people in the tasting room but they were just leaving as we arrived).

First we had a wander around the short tour of the winery buildings, which meant you basically walked past some windows into the rooms where the machinery was all laying unused.
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Domaine Chateraise Winery in Katsunuma Japan

MoIppai — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:39:16 +0000

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Domaine Chateraise in Katsunuma, Japan

The great thing about Katsunuma (one of the main winery areas in Japan) is it’s size. Pretty much each winery and vineyard is in walking distance.
Our “minshoku” (called Tembouen and highly recommended if you stay in Katsunuma) which is like a Japanese B&B seemed to be pretty much in the centre and was within 10 minutes walking distance of 4 wineyards including one of the largest and most famous, Mercian.

However we started with a little winery, called Domaine Chateraise that was literally next to our B&B.

It had a very small tasting room/shop and was empty when we went. Despite it being a national holiday and crowds were expected I guess they weren’t in the mood for wine tasting that day.
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Katsunuma Wineries in Japan

MoIppai — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:46:05 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I had a short holiday in Katsunuma City in Yamanashi prefecture (about an hour or so from Tokyo).

Katsunuma - Famous for Grapes and Wine in Japan

It’s known as the Town of Grapes and Wine, and has about 30 wineries scattered around the area, from large famous ones like Suntory, Chateau Mercian, Grace to much smaller and less well known wineries, for example Domaine Chateraise, Chateau Soryu, L’Orient and Asaya.

We visited about 10 of these wineries and tried lots of their wines and some where excellent. Although to be honest, I’m not a big fan of Japanese reds.

A lot of them are made with the Muscadet Bailey A grape variety, which I hadn’t heard of before, but is very popular for wine in Asia apparently. It has a very strong, distinctive berry like taste which I found too overpowering and didn’t like the aftertaste. Although my wife really liked them and we bought a few home with us.
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