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… Continue reading
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
Katsunuma in Yamanashi Prefecture (not too far from Tokyo) is one of the major wine producing areas in Japan.
Last year my wife and I visited the area and visited some of the wineries.
One of the larger wineries, which was initially on our list to visit but turned out to be a bit further away than the others and involved a taxi or bus trip so we… Continue reading
Yamanashi Wine Jelly
I found an oddity in our local supermarket, not long after coming back from our tour of wineries in Yamanashi prefecture, Koshu Wine Jelly.
This is Jelly in the British English sense (as in the dessert – Jello in American I believe), not the stuff you put on toast… Continue reading
Kobe Wine Tunnel – Photo Credit : Asahi Shinbun
There was an interesting article in the Asahi Shinbun (Asahi Newspaper).It’s obviously in Japanese so I’ve tried to translate the gist of it here.
It seems over 40 years ago Port Island in Kobe was being built and a huge tunnel was dug to move… Continue reading
