Okayama
岡山県 新見市
In northwestern Okayama Prefecture, atop a karst plateau of limestone and seas of clouds.
Winds rise from steep, eroded valleys and sweep across the stark plateau.
We bring you wines made from grapes grown in this environment.
Okayama Wine Valley cultivates small vineyards that can all be kept within close view.
The vines are tended with care, almost as if in conversation with them, while feeling the wind move through the vineyard.
A mineral-rich, well-drained soil that is unusual even in Japan gives the wines from this site a distinctive character found nowhere else.
A very small winery surrounded by the rich natural scenery of Mount Aratoyama.
In 2018, the team renovated the former site of a nursery school at the foot of Mount Aratoyama in Tetta, Niimi City, and opened a compact winery there. Production capacity is limited, but the setting allows the team to stay closely involved with the grapes from cultivation through vinification.
PHOTO — NIHONWINE.JP editorial
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