Body-friendly wine, made right in Sapporo.

Sapporo Fujino Winery

All the grapes used are grown in Hokkaido. The winery cultivates its own vines across 75,000 tsubo (about 25 hectares) of mountainside, while also sourcing exclusively from contracted farmers with "faces you can put to the name," including growers in Yoichi. The winery is committed to using as few additives as possible. Beyond the sulfite-free "Sans Soufre" wine, every other bottle keeps additives to an absolute minimum.

Fujino Winery's sparkling wine isn't carbonated by injecting gas — the bubbles come from fermentation induced by gentle warming. Unlike Champagne, though, since it's made in autumn and shipped before Christmas, there's no lengthy process of slowly settling and removing the lees. As a result, it retains some lees in the finished wine, giving it a distinctive character.
Fujino Winery also makes wine from grapes grown on its own vineyard, but because the quantity is so limited, it isn't sold online. This rare, genuinely Sapporo-grown wine, "Fujino Pinot Noir," is a bottle packed with dedication — if you ever spot it, it's absolutely worth trying.