Tsuno Wine

Tsuno Wine (Tsuno Wine Co., Ltd.) is a pioneering Japanese winery in Tsuno Town, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Kyushu's subtropical Pacific coast. Founded in February 1994 as a third-sector venture between the town, local farmers and the Osuzu Agricultural Cooperative to revitalize a region with few local specialties, the winery opened to the public in November 1996 after years of trial-and-error soil improvement on the rain-prone Makinai plateau. True to its founding belief that 'wine is the local sake of the land,' Tsuno Wine crafts every bottle from 100% Miyazaki-grown grapes — most famously Campbell Early, a table grape variety it transformed into signature sparkling and rosé wines that are now considered the winery's identity, alongside Muscat Bailey A, Chardonnay and Syrah grown across roughly 8.5 hectares of estate vineyards. Its wines have twice been selected among the World's Top 100 Wines by British critics, featured in The World Atlas of Wine, and have won gold medals and trophies at the Japan Wine Competition and Japan Wine Challenge.