Okayama
岡山県 新見市
In northwestern Okayama Prefecture, atop a karst plateau where limestone and a sea of clouds unfold.
Winds blowing from steep, eroded valleys sweep across the desolate plateau.
We bring you wine made from grapes grown in such an environment.
Japanese wine.jp Editorial Department
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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