• A grower worth watching has appeared in Nagano. She works with nature, growing pure fruit without sprays or chemical fertiliser, and makes wine like no one else's. The wines are lustrous and alluring, and they shine. Full of her intent, dense with savour, they draw people in. There is a great deal to look forward to.

  Importer (Tokyo)

• You can feel the maker's love for wine in these bottles. Growing grapes and making wine — especially over these last few unsettled years — is physically hard, and full of the strain of things not going to plan. However much you love it, however clear your ideal, it rarely comes out as you intended; and drinking her wine, you feel everything she has met along the way taking form. After France and Japan, seeing her own vineyard's experience come through in the taste is something to look forward to.

  Wine merchant (Tokyo)

• The first time I visited the vineyard I felt I had been there before — as if I were back among the vines in France. The beauty of how it is kept tells you this is a grower who loves the fruit deeply and takes joy in the work itself. There is a quiet force in these wines. They do not stop at being delicious; they wake memories and feelings in the drinker, even senses that have not yet found words. A glass touches more than the palate. From a mix of varieties and an expression rarely seen in Japanese wine, something singular.

  Wine merchant (Mishima, Shizuoka)

• I do not think wine should be chosen on taste, price or market value alone. On that measure, this wine is something special to me. It is, first of all, simply a fine wine. She carries almost all of the work herself, and when many hands are needed, people from the trade and chefs gather — from within Nagano and from Tokyo and the surrounding area — to sweat in the rows by day and talk by night. That sight is the proof of who she is and of how loved these wines are. The first time I tasted it, the vineyard and the grower came to mind unbidden, and it moved me. That is why I want to serve this not as a merely good wine, but together with the story behind it.

  Restaurant (Karuizawa)

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