Domaine Atsushi Suzuki Acchi Blanc 2024 750ml

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 clay over andesite bedrock. Atsushi Suzuki took the vineyard over from conventional growers and has moved it steadily toward organic farming: grass cover, no tillage, Bordeaux mixture as the main treatment, and the domaine's own wines made only from the parcels farmed without synthetic sprays. The cellar is a renovated early-Shōwa stone warehouse once used for apples; there is no pump and no destemmer, only a small basket press, barrels and resin tanks. Fermentation is with wild yeast, nothing is added but a minimal dose of sulfites at bottling, and the wines are never chaptalised or acidified. One of the quiet benchmarks of Yoichi's natural-wine generation, made in tiny quantities and hard to find even within Japan.

Acchi Blanc — the name is a Hokkaido colloquialism, roughly “over there” — is the domaine's dry white cuvée from its Germanic varieties, the wine most often cited when people first discover Suzuki. Wild-fermented and bottled with minimal sulfites, it is taut and mineral with a saline finish, the kind of white Hokkaido's seafood was waiting for. The 2024 is the current release.

Vintage: 2024
Cuvée: Acchi Blanc
Producer: Domaine Atsushi Suzuki
Region: Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan
Grape: Estate white blend
Volume: 750ml