Grace Winery was established in 1923 in Katsunuma, the birthplace of Japan’s wine industry and today the wine hub of Japan. 

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As a family-owned winery established by Chotaro Misawa, today, the wines are made by his great, great-granddaughter, Ayana, who has worked in top wineries from Australia to France in an effort to increase her wine knowledge and bring a higher level of expertise to her family's winery.

 

Grace implements a more progressive viticultural program than is the norm in Japan, which has made them the benchmark for quality in the small Japanese winemaking community. These are elegant wines that speak quietly and beautifully of a culture that is just coming of age on the world stage for wine.

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Since 1990 the family has been concentrating its effort on improvements in grape production. The winery’s goal is a wine reflecting a unique combination of soil, sunlight and altitude. It has been a pioneer in replacing conventional Japanese viniculture with vertical shoot positioning to produce a more richly flavoured grape.