First taste

Rain at flowering cut the 2018 crop to nearly half, and Takahiko Soga says the loose, shot-berry bunches that survived gave Nana-Tsu-Mori the straw...

Noble rot is getting scarce in Yoichi, and since 2022 Takahiko Soga has released this wine only as a multi-vintage: 2021 is the last single-year bo...

Beau Paysage Tsugane La Montagne 2023Beau Paysage is the domaine of Eishi Okamoto in the Tsugane area of Hokuto, Yamanashi, at about 800 metres. Ok...

Vincent Chaperon calls 2015 "appeasing and intense": a drought year picked from 7 September, sorted plot by plot, and blended 51% Pinot Noir to 49%...

Eight hundred bottles, released only inside Hokkaido and drawn by lottery at the domaine's own stockist: a Kerner that, unusually for this house, d...

Beau Paysage Tsugane Le Vent 2022Beau Paysage is the domaine of Eishi Okamoto in the Tsugane area of Hokuto, Yamanashi, at about 800 metres. Okamot...

The Aihara vineyard gave Takahiko Soga its smallest crop on record in 2018, and this Passetoutgrain, 70 percent Pinot Noir, ran to just 1,000 bottl...

Kenjiro Kagami began this 2018 Chardonnay as an ordinary white; two years on it was still fermenting, and his remedy turned it into a six-month ski...

Takahiko Soga's own 2015 release note promised 'umami and length not seen before' and asked buyers to wait two years; the bottle is now a decade ol...

Krug Grand Cuvée is one of the flagship products of the Krug Champagne house, a prestigious name in the world of fine wines and champagnes. The Kr...

BEAU PAYSAGE is a natural winery located in Tsugane, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture. Owned by winegrower and vintner, Eishi Okamoto, the winery ...

BEAU PAYSAGE is a natural winery located in Tsugane, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture. Owned by winegrower and vintner, Eishi Okamoto, the winery ...

Hisato Ota of Vinaiota, who has imported Canonica for years, wrote that the 2018 gave off a heady sensuality not quite typical of Barolo; the label...

Domaine Atsushi Suzuki farms 5.6 hectares on a gentle east-facing slope in Yoichi, Hokkaido — 60 to 80 metres up, on weathered gravel, sand and cla...

Salon calls 1997 'a sensuality of silk', the 36th vintage from a house that released only 37 in the entire twentieth century. The house's own recor...

BEAU PAYSAGE is a natural winery located in Tsugane, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture. Owned by winegrower and vintner, Eishi Okamoto, the winery ...

The importer's spec line reads more than ten years in bottle and zero dosage: a 2011-base rosé Charles Dufour held far longer than the first releas...

Soga calls it a revival: the crown-capped Kerner he first released in 2010, remade in 2022 with the grower's own son and never offered for general ...

BEAU PAYSAGE is a natural winery located in Tsugane, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture. Owned by winegrower and vintner, Eishi Okamoto, the winery ...

BEAU PAYSAGE is a natural winery located in Tsugane, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture. Owned by winegrower and vintner, Eishi Okamoto, the winery ...

Beau Paysage Tsugane Le Feu 2005Beau Paysage is the domaine of Eishi Okamoto in Tsugane, Hokuto, Yamanashi, at about 800 metres. Okamoto settled he...

Beau Paysage Tsugane Le Feu 2004Beau Paysage is the domaine of Eishi Okamoto in Tsugane, Hokuto, Yamanashi, at about 800 metres. Okamoto settled he...

Beau Paysage Tsugane Le Feu 2003Beau Paysage is the domaine of Eishi Okamoto in Tsugane, Hokuto, Yamanashi, at about 800 metres. Okamoto settled he...

A Museum Piece. The Legend of 1971. This is not merely a wine; it is a time capsule from one of the greatest vintages in the history of Piedmont. P...