Japanese orange wines - recommended producers

Simon recommends his top six orange wine producers from Japan - exclusive content that has so far only been published in the Japanese edition of Amber Revolution.

My book about orange wine Amber Revolution was published in a Japanese language edition in March 2020 (It joins the existing Korean and Taiwan editions, Italian and Ukraine editions are forthcoming). The Japanese edition is the only one which adds new material that wasn't in the original English language edition. For anyone curious about the exciting and fast-developing Japanese natural and orange wine scene, here's an edited and slightly expanded version of the exclusive Japanese content in English.

Japanese wine has a much longer history than most would suspect, with the first commercial vintage produced in Yamanashi prefecture in 1874. A serious wine drinking culture developed more recently, and over the last 20 years, Japan has become a paradise for natural and orange wine drinkers, with extraordinary availability of European wines. Exposure to the classic skin-contact wines from Friuli, Slovenia or Georgia has inspired many local winemakers to put their own Japanese slant on the s…