Vol.2 [Chikuma River Wine Valley] Villa Dest Winery Toyo Tamamura, Super Konishi

Chikuma River Wine Valley
Villa Dest Winery Toyo Tamamura Super Konishi

"Chikuma River Wine Valley" spreads along the Chikuma River from Komoro City to Nakano City. It is a production area where small but unique and up -and -coming wineries are increasing year by year. The pioneer is Yutaka Tamamura, the owner of the Villadest Winery, which opened in 2003.

"I chose this area because I wanted to do a field in a scenic countryside. The gentle slopes are spreading southwest and the sunshine is good, but I once lived in a study abroad, and the French vineyard I visited many times. Tamamura was reminiscent of 500 kinds of seedlings, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Pinonoir in 1992.

Villa Dest Winery Chairman Yutaka Tamamura

The land that Tamamura cleared is the former Kuwabata. From the Meiji era to the early Showa era, the mulberry field spread from the east to Ueda, and many farmers were running sericulture. However, after the war, the sericulture declined and the mulberry field was left unattended. After about 50 years, the fields that have become a wasteland are now being regenerated into wine buds.

"I expressed from silk to wine, but especially in the area where the river terraces on the coast of the Chikuma River opened, it seems that insects were hard to stick because the wind passed. Because the cultivation conditions are similar, many grapes that make high quality wine nationwide have played mulberry fields. "

Villadest Winery

Wine grapes are plants that prefer dry climate. Higashi -Mitsu City is an area with a long sunshine time in Japan, which contains 1 and 2, and has a long sunshine hours. In addition, the difference in temperature is large, and the climate of good ventilation seems to be perfect for wine growing.

"I was told," It's about 850m here, and it's too cold to wine, "but the temperature has risen due to the effects of global warming, so about 10 years have passed. At first it is growing for wine that started with half of the dora, but it is now said that there is a foresight. "

Villadest Winery has produced many high -quality wine, including a lot of awards in domestic and overseas wine competitions. However, Tamamura says that the charm of wine is in its diversity.

"Wine is to express the value of the land, which is expressed by grapes grown in a different climate for each land, through wine. I think that feeling the difference between land is a true way of enjoying. "

Super Konishi, who has been involved in grapes with Tamamura since its foundation, said, "I think that the efforts of the ancestors who have been involved in wine grapes in Nagano Prefecture are also connected. I wonder if the power is also one of the climate. "

Villa Dest Winery President and CEO Super Konishi

One of the attractions of wine is that you can enjoy it with your meal. "If you imagine a dining table with wine, you can imagine the people surrounding the dishes and dining table in addition to the wine. As the wine spreads, producers such as cheese studies, meat and fish are gathering, and they. I think that it will lead to restaurants and hotels for staying to enjoy, which will lead to the development of food culture and tourism. "

Because it is a wine that enjoys the difference between terroires, the wine tourism, which feels the nature of growing grapes, interacts with the brewing manufacturers, and enjoys wine with the food unique to the land, is also attracting attention, and also searching for new ways to enjoy Nagano wine. It is being advanced.

* This article is information as of July 2022. Please note that the handled products are subject to change.

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