Kenji IMAMURA
Winegrower
Fondateur de kurayoshi Winery, a quitté son travail à Tokyo pour s'installer dans la prefecture de Tottori et développer le vin des sables.
We are all united in our desire to grow the best grapes and create exceptional wines.
At our vineyard in Hokuei City, Tottori Prefecture, we carry out every step of the process of making our 100% local wine, from cultivation to harvesting. Winemaking and bottling are done in our facility located in the historic Kurayoshi craftsman district.
This wine has the particularity to be issued from a natural soil composed of sand. At the foot of Mount Daisen and Hiruzen, and on the shore of the Sea of Japan, the wine benefits from a unique climate which, in addition to the composition of its soil, gives it such a particular taste.
The seaside region of Kurayoshi, Hokuei and Yurihama cities was declared a special wine-making zone (PGI for wines) in 2018 strengthening the requirements and guarantee of quality local wine production.
In our winery, we make Japanese wine from grapes grown on our small 1.5 hectare vineyard. In order for more people to enjoy Tottori Sand Wine in the future, we would like to expand our estate and help motivated growers and winemakers to produce their own wine.
Nakama
(the community around the vineyard)
Every step of the winemaking process here at Kurayoshi Winery is carried out by members of our community ("Nakama" or "comrades" or "close friends")
We are all united in our desire to grow the best grapes and create the best wines.
Shogo MAETA
Wine grower
Left his white-collar life to take over his mother's vineyard by applying methods that preserve nature
Tetsuaki ISOE
Wine grower
Après avoir pris sa retraite de professeur d'art, il commence à aider M. Imamura pendant toutes les étapes de culture et de vinification.
Akashi UEHARA
Wine grower
third generation operator of his grandfather's vineyard
Chris VanCampen
Wine grower
moved to Kurayoshi from Utah, USA, to begin growing his own grapes
