The wedding party was a nice French-Japanese full-course meal with free drink, so I ordered a white wine, which was the local Chichibu wine!
The grape variety of this white wine is 100% Koshu grape, which is one of the Japanese original grape. It was the first time for me to drink a wine from Chichibu, so I was a little excited:)
Very clean aroma and bouquet of grapefruits, white flower, and mineral like a stone. Well balance of fruits flavor and acidity. Good volume but not too much. Wow, it's soooooo tasty❤
Actually, I had underestimated this wine before drinking but totally knocked out by this high-quality taste. Sooner, I recommended to my friends to drink this wine. They were also very impressed about it as same as me and started to drink it with me. I don't remember how many bottles we had....
This Chichibu-wine winery was established in 1933 and succeeded to brew a wine in 1936. The founder, Gensaku Asami, had no knowledge about brewage at the beginning, so he learned it from "Zenbei Kawakami," one of the most famous Japanese wine-brewer at the time. At the beginning, the business was not going well, having very hard time to sell his wine. After several years later, his wine was admired by French priest as "Wow, this wine tastes like Bordeaux wine, so great!" This admiration was soon known among Japanese wine lovers, and Chichibu-wine was getting popular; his effort was finally rewarded.
I love the Chichibu-wine's taste, the history, and their passion and effort to wine-making. At the time I visit to my friend @ Chichibu, I'll definitely visit the winery as well :)
You can buy this GKT wine at this website;
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