Japan
Certified
Uncertified
Type
Grower, Maker
Certified
Uncertified
Type
Grower, Maker
Located in Aya, Miyazaki, Katsuki Wines is a boutique family-run winery focused on creating small production, handmade natural wines. After over a decade in New Zealand and Germany making and studying wine, Yoshitada Katsuki returned to his native Miyazaki to pursue the family- and community- based winemaking he experienced abroad. He hand-selected and personally imported a diverse lineup of varieties suited to Miyazaki’s challenging climate, and, inspired by Akinori Kimura’s “Miracle Apples,” began completely pesticide, herbicide, and chemical fertilizer free sustainable grape production in 2013. Adapting Japanese table grape growing techniques to European wine grape varieties, Yoshi grows quality organic wine grapes previously thought impossible for the region.
- Information on grapes they farm
- Size of their farm: 1.43 (ha)
- Size of farm under vine: 0.99 (ha)
- All grapes are dry-farmed. None of the vineyards are irrigated.
- All grapes are harvested manually.
- Information on grapes they buy in
- All grapes are farmed organically and/or biodynamically.
- Not all grapes are dry-farmed. Some are irrigated
- All grapes are harvested manually.
