BEAU PAYSAGE is a natural-wine winery in Tsugane, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture.
Its owner, grape grower and winemaker Eishi Okamoto, makes wines that embrace nature as it is and reflect it directly. His wines have many admirers both in Japan and overseas. After planting his first vines in Tsugane in 1999, he established the winery in 2008. In 2014, he launched the Butterfly Project, a platform through which producers disclose information themselves and connect with consumers. BEAU PAYSAGE also participates in Patagonia's “1% for the Planet,” a program that contributes 1% of annual sales to environmental conservation activities. The BEAU PAYSAGE label carries the message: “A single glass of wine can change the Earth. Yes, the way we eat and drink can change the Earth. You may think that sounds like a dream. But we hope that one day you too will begin walking together with us.”
We have approached winemaking with a belief that “wine is not made by people; it is born in the vineyard.”
And we came to realize that wine made naturally, with nothing added, can be thought of as rain itself. Rain falls on the vineyard and sinks into the earth. The vines draw it up through their roots and store it in the fruit. Juice is then pressed from the grapes and, with nothing else added, becomes wine solely through the work of microorganisms. The wine passes through our bodies, returns to the sea, rises again into the sky, and eventually falls once more on the vineyard.
It is a great cycle that has continued for thousands of years.
We hope it will continue far into the future.
Sometimes, when drinking wine, there is a sensation that it settles naturally into the body, almost as if it soaks into us. It is not something perceived by the intellect or even the palate, but rather an unconscious feeling that our own cells recognize it as something akin to themselves and accept it. We believe that for such wine to be born, clean and beautiful rain is essential. And for beautiful rain to fall, we need clean air and beautiful landscapes. So how do beautiful landscapes come into being? I believe it begins with feeling the beauty of a landscape and with people connecting to one another. When we can truly feel a beautiful landscape, we want to protect it; and when people connect, that feeling can surely be passed on.
No one person can create a beautiful landscape alone. It requires the strength of everyone. We are very happy that haruka has shared this vision and will express a “beautiful landscape” through music. We are convinced that this brings us one step closer to that landscape. Please experience this entirely new work, which stimulates taste, smell, sight, and hearing all at once.