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Nobori Jozo
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Tiny husband-and-wife winery crafting wild-yeast Yoichi rosé
Nobori Jozo is a tiny, husband-and-wife winery in the Nobori district of Yoichi, Hokkaido, founded in 2011 by Fumiaki Konishi and his wife after relocating from Tokyo. Farming just 0.4 hectares of Zweigeltrebe by hand and vinifying in a converted tatami room of their home, the couple crafts a single wine each vintage — a wild-yeast rosé called Setsuna Uta — producing roughly 3,000 bottles a year. Their approach favors healthy, fully ripe fruit and indigenous-yeast fermentation to coax out a wine that is at once clean, aromatic, and quietly complex.
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Who Is This For?
For natural wine lovers seeking a rare, intimate rosé crafted by a two-person Hokkaido household winery.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Nobori Jozo's winemaking philosophy?
- Nobori Jozo focuses on growing fully ripe, disease-free Zweigeltrebe grapes and fermenting them with wild, indigenous yeast to produce a wine that is clean yet richly complex, with pronounced umami.
- How much wine does Nobori Jozo produce?
- The winery is extremely small, producing only about 3,000 bottles a year of a single wine, the rosé "Setsuna Uta," from 0.4 hectares of estate-grown Zweigeltrebe.
- Who runs Nobori Jozo?
- Nobori Jozo is run entirely by a husband-and-wife team, Fumiaki Konishi and his wife, who relocated to Yoichi and began growing grapes together in 2011.
- Does Nobori Jozo have an official website or tasting room?
- No public website has been found; the winery is a tiny home-based operation, and its wine "Setsuna Uta" is sold through select Japanese wine retailers rather than direct sales.