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Yamanashi

Appellation

Yamanashi is a GI in Japan.

Prefecture west of Tokyo and the centre of Japanese wine since the 19th century. Its signature is Koshu, a pink-skinned grape for delicate dry whites.
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Key facts

Type
GI (National Tax Agency)
Protected since
2013-07-16
Area
447,000 ha registered outline
Centre
35.5682° N, 138.6871° E
Legal basis
Geographical indications for wine designated by the National Tax Agency; each covers the whole prefecture.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that the legal definition names.

Where it is

Nearest town
8.7 km south of Fuefuki
Nearest city
12 km south of Yamanashi 33,435 people
To the sea
48 km
Same latitude
El Pomar District (United States), Αρχάνες (Greece), Malta (Malta)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
68–3,721 m
Mean elevation
994 m

Measured over the whole outline on 291,117 elevation cells of about 124 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 24

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Sources

geoBoundaries JPN ADM1 (2017) (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0)

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