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Japan wine – some favourites

Thursday 22 May 2025 • 10 min read
Tokyo tasting 12 April 2025 - some of the bottles

A total of 36 local ferments were tasted by Jancis during her recent few days in Tokyo. Some of those presented on 12 April 2025 are shown above. See also French interest in Japan wine.

Before Nick and I went to Japan recently to launch the Japanese version of JancisRobinson.com I was contacted by Hijiri Inose, a wine writer who apparently translates such Financial Times articles of mine as are also published by Nikkei’s Style magazine. (Back in 2015 Nikkei, the Japanese publisher of the world’s largest financial newspaper, acquired the FT, for which I have written since...