Hokkaido
北海道
Japan's premier cool-climate wine region, renowned for elegant whites and refined Pinot Noir.
About Hokkaido
- Producers listed
- 71
- Appellations
- 9 areas
- Most wineries in
- 余市町・岩見沢市
- Founded 2010 or later
- 75%
- 51 of 68 with a known founding year
Japan's northernmost main island, Hokkaido is emerging as the country's most exciting wine region. Its cool continental climate, long summer daylight hours, and varied volcanic and clay soils provide ideal conditions for Burgundian varietals such as Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The island's main wine districts include Yoichi (cool-climate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay), Ikeda, and southern Hakodate, the latter attracting international investment led by Domaine de Montille.
Best for
Wine enthusiasts seeking crisp, terroir-driven cool-climate wines and scenic vineyard tours.
Food Pairings
Fresh seafood, sushi, sashimi, grilled scallops, Hokkaido crab, and light seasonal vegetables.
Winery Map of Hokkaido
Of the Hokkaido wineries on Vinami, we show the 71 whose locations we have verified.
3 wineries without a published street address are listed below but not shown on the map.
Wineries by Municipality
- 余市町22
- Camel Farm WineryFounded 2014
- Domaine Atsushi SuzukiFounded 2015
- Domaine MontFounded 2016
- Domaine TakahikoFounded 2010
- Domaine YuiFounded 2020
- Field of Dreams WineryFounded 2021
- Fujisawa Farm(contract-made)
- Hirakawa WineryFounded 2015
- Jiki no HatakeFounded 2017
- Kimura Farm(contract-made)
- Lan SeqquaFounded 2020
- LOW BROW CRAFTFounded 2022
- Misono VineyardFounded 2021
- Mongaku Valley WineryFounded 2018
- Nitori WineryFounded 2025
- Nobori JozoFounded 2014
- OcciGabi WineryFounded 2013
- Rita Farm & WineryFounded 2013
- Winery Yume no MoriFounded 2016
- YamadadohFounded 2021
- Yoichi WineryFounded 1974
- Yoka WineryFounded 2018
- 岩見沢市7
- 10R WineryFounded 2012
- Housui WineryFounded 2006
- IrenkaFounded 2012
- Kondo VineyardFounded 2017
- Kurisawa WinesFounded 2017
- Nakazawa VineyardFounded 2002
- Wine Hatake UramotoFounded 2023
- 三笠市4
- AKASAKA Vineyard(contract-made)Founded 2021
- Miyamoto VineyardFounded 2012
- Takizawa WineryFounded 2013
- Yamazaki WineryFounded 2002
- 仁木町4
- Berry Berry Farm & Winery NikiFounded 2009
- Domaine BlessFounded 2020
- NIKI Hills WineryFounded 2014
- pur.Founded 2025
- 札幌市3
- Bankei Toge WineryFounded 2001
- Hakkenzan WineryFounded 2011
- Sapporo Fujino WineryFounded 2009
- 長沼町3
- Hokkaido Jiyu WineFounded 2006
- Hokkaido SPACE WineryFounded 2023
- MARO WinesFounded 2022
- 小樽市2
- Hokkaido WineFounded 1974
- OSA WINERYFounded 2015
- 上富良野町2
- Agri System (Kamui Metok Nupuri Winery)Founded 2023
- Tada WineryFounded 2016
- 池田町2
- Tokachi Makibanoie WineryFounded 2021
- Tokachi WineFounded 1963
- ニセコ町1
- Niseko WineryFounded 2016
- 安平町1
- Dynax Alom WineryFounded 2026
- 奥尻町1
- Okushiri WineryFounded 2008
- 乙部町1
- Otobe WineryFounded 1976
- 音更町1
- Tokachigaoka WineryFounded 2025
- 歌志内市1
- Kamiuta VineyardFounded 2016
- 芽室町1
- Memuro WineryFounded 2020
- 砂川市1
- Takahashi FarmFounded 2016
- 七飯町1
- Hakodate WineryFounded 1973
- 千歳市1
- Chitose WineryFounded 1988
- 壮瞥町1
- Okutoya WineryFounded 2025
- 帯広市1
- Obihiro WineryFounded 2019
- 滝川市1
- Ebeotsu WeinFounded 2021
- 中富良野町1
- Domaine RaisonFounded 2019
- 弟子屈町1
- Teshikaga WineryFounded 2024
- 洞爺湖町1
- Tsukiura WineryFounded 2000
- 函館市1
- de Montille & HokkaidoFounded 2016
- 富良野市1
- Furano WineryFounded 1972
- 北斗市1
- Nora-KuraFounded 2012
- 名寄市1
- Shinga WineryFounded 2019
- 蘭越町1
- Matsubara FarmFounded 1993
Addresses and founding years are verified against each winery's official website and public information from local governments and industry bodies. Sources are listed on each producer's page.
Producers
ばんけい峠のワイナリー
Bankei Toge Winery
Founded in 2001 by Shuji Tamura, Bankei Toge Winery is recognized as the first winery established in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Tucked into the wooded Bankei valley in Chuo-ku, just a 15-minute drive from central Sapporo, this small, hands-on estate crafts wine, cider and fruit wines from Hokkaido-grown grapes and other fruit, combining its own hillside vineyard with fruit sourced from producers around the prefecture, including Niki and Sobetsu. The winery is committed to additive-free winemaking: sulfite-free, free-run juice fermented with wild yeast, with grapes hand-sorted cluster by cluster and any fruit that has touched the ground excluded to avoid oxidation. Alongside wine, the estate also produces cider, fruit wines from haskap and raspberry, artisan bread made with Hokkaido wheat, and handmade cheese. It doubles as a community gathering place, with weekend tastings and a seasonal terrace where visitors can sample wine overlooking the vineyard.
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sapporo-bankei-winery.jimdofree.com/千歳ワイナリー
Chitose Winery
Chitose Winery, operated by Hokkaido Chuo Budoshu Co., Ltd., traces its roots to 1988, when Chuo Budoshu — the century-old Yamanashi producer behind Grace Wine — opened it as a second winery to make fruit wine from Chitose's local haskap berries. Grapes joined the lineup in 1993, sourced from the Kimura family's vineyard in Yoichi, and in 2011 the winery became an independent company, Hokkaido Chuo Budoshu Co., Ltd. Led by Kazufumi Misawa, son of Chuo Budoshu's third-generation president, the winery pursues elegance over power: its Kita Wine (North Wine) series builds single-variety Kerner and Pinot Noir wines using a gentle balloon-press technique that protects the juice from oxidation, with whites aged in stainless steel for freshness and reds in oak barrels. The historic stone building, built of Sapporo soft stone near JR Chitose Station, also produces the region's beloved low-alcohol haskap wine.
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www.chitose-winery.com/八剣山ワイナリー
Hakkenzan Winery
Founded in 2011 at the foot of Mount Hakkenzan in Sapporo's Minami Ward, Hakkenzan Winery grew out of a local revitalization project after its founder, a geologist by training, identified the gravelly, well-drained soil of this former alluvial fan as ideal for grape growing. The winery cultivates more than 25 grape varieties — including Cabernet Franc, Zweigelt, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris — on stony, mineral-rich vineyards shaped by ancient volcanic activity, and supplements its own fruit with grapes from local Hokkaido farmers. Wines are made with careful varietal selection and meticulous fermentation, and the winery has developed CuVT, a proprietary concentration technique adapted from food-processing equipment that produces sweet wines without artificial freezing. Alongside its cellar, Hakkenzan operates a marché, kitchen and campsite, functioning as a 'sixth-industry' hub connecting Sapporo's terroir, agriculture and tourism.
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hakkenzanwine.com/北海道ワイン
Hokkaido Wine
Hokkaido's largest winery producing wines from locally grown Kerner, Müller-Thurgau, and Zweigeltrebe, pioneering cool-climate winemaking on Japan's northernmost island.
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www.hokkaidowine.com松原農園
Matsubara Farm
Matsubara Farm is a pioneering family-run winery on the slopes of the Niseko mountains in Rankoshi, Hokkaido. Founder Kenji Matsubara, who moved from Hiroshima, planted his first Müller-Thurgau vines in 1993, drawn to the variety's delicate character, and began estate winemaking in 2014. The farm's roughly 1.2-hectare vineyard includes vines over 30 years old, and the cool autumn temperatures and light frost of Rankoshi allow the grapes to ripen slowly, producing wines with gentle sweetness, bright acidity and a clean, crisp finish. Matsubara also grows Niagara grapes for a bottle-fermented sparkling wine. True to its founder's belief in making wine that 'everyone who drinks it will call delicious,' the winery focuses on affordable, food-friendly table wine meant for everyday meals rather than special occasions, sold mostly through its own website and local shops.
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matsubarawine.com/ニセコワイナリー
Niseko Winery
Niseko Winery is the only winery in Niseko Town, Hokkaido, founded by Yasunori Homma, a former international banker who left his career to plant vines on rugged, unclaimed land at the foot of Mt. Yotei starting in 2005. Officially established as Yotei Green Business Co., Ltd. in 2016 and releasing its first vintage in 2017, it is one of only two JAS organic-certified wineries in Japan. Working a roughly 4-hectare estate with zero chemical pesticides or fertilizers, the winery grows cool-climate, disease-resistant German varieties — including Bacchus, Zweigeltrebe, Kerner and Dornfelder — and specializes exclusively in traditional-method (méthode traditionnelle) sparkling wine, aged on the lees in bottle for 18 months or more. Rather than bottling single-varietal wines, Niseko Winery blends several grapes each vintage (six varieties went into its 2019 white), so the exact composition shifts year to year with the harvest — a practice the winery frames as capturing the true, ever-changing character of Niseko's terroir.
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yoteigreenbusiness.com/
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Appellations
Smaller wine areas within Hokkaido.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the most famous grape variety in Hokkaido?
- Kerner is widely considered the signature white grape of Hokkaido due to its excellent adaptation to the cool climate, while Pinot Noir has become the defining red grape, especially in the Yoichi sub-region.
- Which sub-regions of Hokkaido are most notable for wine?
- Yoichi is the most acclaimed sub-region, located at 43°N latitude similar to Burgundy and Champagne, home to over 20 premium wineries. Sorachi and Furano are also emerging areas with unique continental climates and diverse soils.
- Is Hokkaido wine internationally recognized?
- Yes. Hokkaido wines, especially Pinot Noir from Yoichi producers like Domaine Takahiko, have gained significant international acclaim. In 2025, Yoichi even signed a friendship accord with Gevrey-Chambertin in Burgundy, France.
- What makes Hokkaido's climate ideal for winemaking?
- Hokkaido's location between 42° and 45°N latitude brings large diurnal temperature variation, low humidity, and minimal rainfall during harvest. These conditions slow grape ripening and preserve natural acidity, resulting in elegant, mineral-driven wines.
- When is the best time to visit Hokkaido wineries?
- Harvest season from late September to October is the most exciting time to visit, when wineries are in full swing. Summer (July–August) also offers beautiful vineyard scenery alongside Hokkaido's famous lavender fields.