Grace Koshu Kayagatake
| Winery | Grace |
| Appellation | Yamanashi |
| Wine Style | Crisp Dry White Wine |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Bottle Closure | Stelvin Cap |
| Viticulture | Conventional |
| Alcohol by Volume | 11,50% |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Ageing Potential from Vintage | < 3 Years |
| Ageing | Stainless Steel Vat |
Tasting notes
Authentic crisp white wine. Brilliant white yellow with greenish hue. Striking mineral attack with flint, fruit blossoms and white berries. Fine elegant taste with lots of fresh acidity and contained alcohol. Superfine classy texture with lots of fine citrus notes on the finish. Delicious aperitif wine or with pickled white fish, mussels and early vegetables. Goes also well with raw marinated seafood and fresh cheeses. Serving temperature: 8°C
Wine Story
The colour of Japan - I remember when I was a child, my grandfather would let me sniff Koshu and said to me “This is the aroma of vinifera”. My father would bring me to the sun-bathed vineyards, showed me a bunch of Koshu grapes, lucid with a light purplish shade under the sun, and said to me “This is a restrained Japanese colour”.
Koshu has pale carnation pink skin rather than bright pink like vivid or hot pink, shy and unpretentious Japanese people might see themselves in Koshu’s low-key color. Inherited from my family’s passion, I grew up together with Koshu. Koshu is said to arrive from the far-away South Caucasus over 1,000 years ago. Throughout the years, it not only has not faced extinction but instead was integrated into our soils.
To us winemakers brought up in Yamanashi, no matter where Koshu came from, it will not change the fact that it is our most treasured grape variety. Koshu continues to thrive. Its hidden potential, occasionally revealed, has impressed me time and again.
I hope you will enjoy the taste my provenance and my family have taught me to appreciate.
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