Fujimaru Budo To Ikuru Delaware 2024
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$71.00
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Singapore 423619
Singapore
Fujimaru "Budo to Ikiru" Delaware 2024
Fujimaru was making skin-contact Delaware before "orange wine" was a phrase anyone used in Japan — this bottling draws on Yamanashi fruit, the country's historic Delaware heartland.
Grape varietal & region: 100% Delaware, a hybrid grape with a 120-year growing history around Osaka and an even deeper one in Yamanashi Prefecture, sourced for this cuvee from Yamanashi growers working to Fujimaru's standards. Fujimaru Winery began in 2006 as a project to distribute interesting local Japanese wine; founder Tomofumi Fujimaru discovered Osaka's disappearing century-old grape-growing heritage and, in 2010, started farming an abandoned plot in Kashiwara City himself, focused on Delaware. The wines were an immediate hit, and the winery grew into a genuine urban negociant, working with outside growers held to the same standard the estate applies to its own fruit: no chemicals unless absolutely necessary.
Taste profile: skin-contact Delaware sits in a category of its own — expect apricot and orange peel, a light grip of tannin from the skin contact, and the kind of textured, savoury edge that separates orange wine from a straightforward white. "Budo to Ikiru" translates roughly to "Living with grapes" — a fitting name for a wine built to go with food rather than sit on its own.
Winemaking process: Fujimaru pioneered skin-contact fermentation on Delaware in Japan as early as 2014, before "orange wine" was a recognised term locally. All Fujimaru wines ferment on wild yeast with sulphite additions kept to an absolute minimum — no specific technical sheet is published for this particular vintage, so treat the skin-contact approach as the house style rather than a cuvee-specific confirmed spec.
Winemaker: Tomofumi Fujimaru didn't set out to become a winemaker — he founded his company to sell other people's wine, and only backed into growing grapes himself when he saw Osaka's viticultural heritage disappearing under urban development. That founder's instinct — save what's disappearing, then figure out how to make it sing — still shapes the winery's approach to a grape most of the wine world had written off as a table variety.
Country
Japan
Region
Yamanashi Prefecture
Maker
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Fujimaru Winery
Style
Aromatic & Spiced Orange
Winery Practices
Natural Winemaking
Key Techniques Used
Extended Maceration
Maturation Medium
Stainless Steel Tanks
Primary Taste
Stone Fruit and Citrus Fruit
Acidity
Medium
Dryness
Very Dry
Food Pairing
Meaty & Oily Fish
Key Highlights
Winery
Winery
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Fujimaru Winery
Fujimaru Winery is an urban winery with two locations in Osaka and Tokyo and its own farm in Osaka. Started from a goal to save abandoned vineyards, they took over some to make wine, and started working with other grape growers as a negociant winery
Classification
Classification
Experimental Wines
These wines may not represent their "sense of place", but rather showcase the winemaker's style & creativity. While not classified, this does not mean that they aren't as good - they can be fantastic, but made in the winemaker's style & perspective
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Select "Local Delivery" shipping option upon checkout, and orders made by 6PM would be able to be delivered same day
Perfect for those last-minute dinner parties or when you simply can’t wait to order wine online and uncork that bottle.
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