TIME TRAVEL IN SADOYA WINERY, KOFU

When we think about wine, mostly we didn't think about Japan. Italy, Australia, Chile, New Zealand, France are countries famous of fine wine and it's interesting wineries. But, Japan?

Yamanashi adalah Prefektur yang berada sekitar 120 kilometer ke arah barat dari Tokyo, dan prefektur ini merupakan tempat lahirnya wine di Jepang, dan kini menjadi salah satu area utama penghasil wine terbaik dari Jepang. 

Yamanashi Prefecture is located approximately 120 kilometers in the western part of Tokyo, and the prefecture is the cradle of wine in Japan, and has now become one of the major areas of Japan's best wine producer.

Semua berawal di tahun 1870, di saat Hironori Yamada dan Norihisa Takuma mulai membuat wine menggunakan anggur jenis Koshu dan Crimson Glory Vine. Singkat cerita, kebun dan proses pembuatan wine yang dimulai oleh mereka menjadi besar, dan kini ada lebih dari 80 winery di Prefektur Yamanashi.

It all started in 1870, when Hironori Yamada and Norihisa Takuma began making wine using Koshu and Crimson Glory Vine grapes types. Long story short, the gardens and the wine-making process are initiated by them to be great, and there are now more than 80 wineries in Yamanashi Prefecture.

Sadoya Winery merupakan salah satu yang tertua di Yamanashi, dan bukan hanya perkebunan dan wine tasting saja, di Sadoya Winery kita dapat merasakan "time travel" dengan berkeliling lokasi penyimpanan dan area pengolahan wine di masa dahulu, yang berada di bawah tanah.

Sadoya Winery is one of the oldest in Yamanashi, and not just the estate and wine tasting course, in Sadoya Winery we can feel the "time travel" with locations around the wine storage and processing area in the past, which is in the basement.

 

Underground wine cellar ini menjadi rute history tour di Sadoya Winery, di mana kita dapat melihat lokasi penyimpanan wine yang masih digunakan hingga kini, area tempat memproses wine dan perkakas di masa lampau. 

Underground wine cellar has become the history tour in Sadoya Winery, where we can see the wine storage location that is still used until now, the area where the wine process and tooling in the past.

Ruang bawah tanah, lampu remang-remang membuat suasana time travel terasa seru. Di akhir rute kita akan sampai di area penyimpanan barrel wine, dan sekaligus dapat mencoba beberapa jenis wine yang diproduksi di Sadoya Winery. 

The basement, the dim lights make the time travel atmosphere feels exciting. At the end of the route we will arrive at a wine barrel storage area, and also can try some of the types of wine produced in Sadoya Winery.

A glass of wine a day is good for your health, and a winery tour is surely add more experience to you :)

@marischkaprue - sipping wine and walking straight

NOTES

SADOYA WINERY

3-3-24 Kita-guchi, Kofu

Yamanashi Prefecture

Japan

OPENING HOURS

10-18 AM

Tour reservation must be made latest 16 AM

TOUR ADMISSION FEE

500 yen

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