Wine Producers
Producers featured on Vinami
Producers featured on Vinami
Wine Producers
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Shimane Winery (島根ワイナリー) was established in 1986 in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, tracing its roots to a grape processing cooperative founded in 1959. Located just minutes from Izumo Taisha—one of Japan's most sacred Shinto shrines—it is one of the most visited wineries in western Japan, welcoming over one million visitors annually. The winery operates on three integrated pillars: grape cultivation, wine production, and tourism, with all raw materials sourced exclusively from within Shimane Prefecture. Its flagship 'Enmusubi' (縁結) series, named for the shrine's deity of matchmaking, spans still and sparkling wines from Muscat Bailey A, Koshu, Delaware, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc. In 2008 the winery opened Yokota Vineyard in Okuizumo-cho (altitude 430–440 m), where Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon thrive in the mountain climate. Shimane Winery received a 4-star award from the Japan Winery Awards (JWA) 2025 and has earned multiple gold medals at the Japan Wine Competition, including the 2025 gold for Enmusubi Muscat Bailey A 2023.
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www.shimane-winery.jp/信州たかやまワイナリー
Shinshu Takayama Winery was established in 2016 by a cooperative of 13 grape-growing families in Takayama Village, Nagano Prefecture, united by a shared conviction that the village's exceptional fruit deserved to become world-class wine. Led by chief winemaker Eiichi Takano — a Yamanashi University fermentation science graduate who honed his craft in Katsunuma and Bordeaux before joining the village's wine promotion team in 2015 — the winery is both a production facility and a training ground for the next generation of Japanese winemakers. Takano's philosophy is elegantly simple: deliver grapes, tended with care by the village's families, to dining tables in their purest vinous form. He targets wines that sit gracefully within a meal, inviting another pour until the bottle is quietly empty. The winery pursues three harmonies: among its 80-plus cuvées through assemblage, between wine and food, and between the winery and the Takayama community it serves. It has received recognition at the Japan Winery Award (JWA), the Japan Wine Competition (silver in European white varieties, 2025), and the Vinalies Internationales (gold for Chardonnay 2022, 2026). The flagship 'Ant' series (named for the local dialect word for 'thank you') and the village-born 'Murayori' label showcase the terroir's range from Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc to Merlot and Cabernet blends.
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www.shinshu-takayama.wine/シン・クア・ノン
California's most revered cult producer, Manfred Krankl creates extraordinarily complex Rhône-style wines in tiny quantities under annually changing labels, all sold by mailing list.
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www.sinequanon.com/スタッグス・リープ・ワイン・セラーズ
Founded in 1970 by Warren Winiarski, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is a legendary Napa Valley estate. It gained worldwide fame when its 1973 S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon won first place in the historic 1976 Judgment of Paris, defeating top French Bordeaux in a blind tasting by French judges — a result that fundamentally changed the global perception of California wines and was described by Decanter as 'a victory that put California on the winemaking map.' The winery is renowned for elegant, structured, age-worthy Cabernet Sauvignons from its historic S.L.V. and Fay vineyards. Today, it continues to set the standard for excellence in the Stags Leap District, combining traditional winemaking with modern precision to produce wines of remarkable complexity and finesse.
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www.stagsleapwinecellars.com/サントリー登美の丘ワイナリー
Suntory Tomi no Oka Winery is Japan's most historically significant estate winery, occupying 150 hectares of south-facing hillside in Kai City, Yamanashi Prefecture, at elevations between 400 and 600 metres above sea level. The estate's story begins in 1909, when railway engineer Shinsuke Koyama, struck by the Rhine Valley-like beauty of the terrain, founded Tomi Farm. In 1936, Suntory — then called Kotobukiya — took over the estate together with Zenbei Kawakami, the revered father of Japanese viticulture, cementing a partnership that would define Japanese fine wine for the next century. The winery produced Japan's very first noble rot wine in 1978 (Tomi Noble d'Or, from the 1975 harvest) and its flagship Tomi red was the first Japanese wine to win a gold medal at a major Bordeaux competition (Les Citadelles du Vin, 2003). In 2024, the ultimate recognition arrived: SUNTORY FROM FARM Tomi Koshu 2022 became the first Japanese wine in history to win Best in Show at the Decanter World Wine Awards — chosen from over 18,000 entries worldwide.
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www.suntory.co.jp/factory/tominooka/タブラス・クリーク・ヴィンヤード
A pioneering biodynamic Paso Robles estate, established by the Perrin family of Beaucastel, specializing in Rhône varieties (Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Roussanne) with limestone soils.
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A pioneer grape-growing farm in Sunagawa, Sorachi, Hokkaido, founded by Takahashi Shoji, a former dairy farmer who converted his pastureland in Higashi-Toyonuma into a Sauvignon Blanc vineyard in 2016. Despite the conventional wisdom that Sunagawa (latitude 43°N) lacked sufficient sunshine hours for Sauvignon Blanc, Takahashi defied this assumption and planted 2,600 vines on his former ranch. The grapes are supplied to 10R Winery (Kamihoro, Iwamizawa) for vinification under the KWtN ('Kamihoro Wine and Friends') label. The vineyard sits on elevated ground in a warm, west-facing aspect, sheltered by surrounding countryside. Farming is done without chemical fertilizers, following low-intervention principles. The farm is now managed by Shinbo Rika, who succeeded Takahashi Shoji and aims to build a dedicated winery in Sunagawa by 2028.
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Yamagata's most renowned artisan winery, producing elegant Chardonnay, Muscat Bailey A, and Merlot from hand-cultivated vineyards in Takahata.
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www.takahata-winery.jp/タケダワイナリー
Takeda Winery, founded in 1920 in Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, is one of Japan's most pioneering estate wineries. Located on sun-drenched, southeast-facing slopes at the base of the Zao Mountain Range, the winery cultivates 15 hectares of vineyards divided into 26 distinct sections. The pivotal transformation of the winery came under third-generation owner Shigenobu Takeda, who was so inspired by Château Margaux that he dedicated himself to cultivating Bordeaux varieties in Japan. Despite a devastating fire in 1974, the winery was reborn with renewed purpose and eventually created the acclaimed 'Château Takeda' label in 1990. Natural farming practices — minimal pesticides, zero chemical fertilizers, and wild yeast fermentation — define the house style.
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www.takeda-wine.jp滝沢ワイナリー
Takizawa Winery is a pioneering estate in the Tatpu district of Mikasa City, part of Hokkaido's Sorachi wine region. Founded in 2004 by Nobuo Takizawa, a former Sapporo coffee-shop owner turned winegrower, the winery farms roughly 3 hectares across three south-facing plots — Wind Field, Sun Field, and Grove Field — without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. All wines are fermented with wild yeast, producing pure, mineral-driven expressions of Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Kerner, and Muller-Thurgau. Since Takizawa's passing in 2023, winemaker Kota Kageyama has carried on his vision.
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www.takizawawinery.jp/タップコップ
Tap-Kop is a boutique natural winery in Yoichi, Hokkaido, producing minimal-intervention wines that express the cool, maritime terroir of the region. Taking its name from the vineyard site, the winery works with cool-climate varieties — Pinot Noir, Lemberger, and white grapes — vinified with wild yeast and minimal sulfur addition to let the land speak directly through the glass.
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Historic Salice Salentino producer, the late Cosimo Taurino collaborated with Severino Garofano to create the benchmark Notarpanaro and Patriglione Negroamaro.
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www.taurinovini.com/テメント
South Styria's (Südsteiermark) most prestigious producer, Manfred Tement makes benchmark Sauvignon Blanc of Burgundy-matching quality and complexity.
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www.tement.atテヌータ・サン・グイド
The original Super Tuscan from Bolgheri, Marchese Incisa della Rocchetta planted Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1940s inspired by Bordeaux, creating Italy's most famous wine.
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www.sassicaia.comテッレ・ネーレ
One of the most acclaimed Etna producers, crafting site-specific Nerello Mascalese wines from various contrade (zones) on the volcano, showing remarkable terroir expression.
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www.tenutaterrenere.com/ザ・サディー・ファミリー・ワインズ
The Sadie Family Wines is one of South Africa's most celebrated estates, founded in 1998 by visionary winemaker Eben Sadie in the Swartland region. Inspired by the old-vine heritage and Mediterranean terroir of Swartland, Sadie produces two flagship wines — Columella (red) and Palladius (white) — from a mosaic of ancient, dry-farmed vineyards planted between 1900 and 1974. His philosophy centres on minimal intervention, indigenous yeasts, and allowing the land to speak through the wine.
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www.thesadiefamily.comティエリー・アルマン
A tiny but influential Cornas producer, whose natural wine approach and single-vineyard bottlings (Reynard and Chaillot) are benchmarks for the appellation.
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Alto Adige's historic producer from Entiklar, producing a wide range of quality varietals including Feldmarschall von Fenner Müller-Thurgau from high-altitude vineyards.
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www.tiefenbrunner.com