About “Project ORI WINE”
Osato Research Institute is situated in Ono-town in Gifu prefecture, renowned as the number one producer of rose seedlings as well as a leading growing region of FUYU-GAKI, called King of Japanese sweet persimmons. However, because of the aging and decreasing of farmers, it is afraid that more fields have been left lying fallow recently. Ono-town asked us if we could open a way for the effective use of increasing such idle lands. This is how we started our activity of “Project ORI WINE” in 2012, aiming for winemaking to seek for co-existence and co-prosperity with local persimmon farmers and make a place for social activities especially for the retired and elderly people.
We thought it would be nice if we can make this place for ‘a cool and stylish agriculture’ where young people and elderly people can enjoy working together. Then we established beautiful open vineyards with image of southern France’s luxuriant garden to grow total of 500 vines of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the land of 1000 m2. What “Project ORI WINE” is trying to make is a Bio-Wine (Natural Wine) without using chemical fertilizers or pesticides. We would like to introduce the activities.
Project ORI Wine article
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2019/12/18
Project ORI Wine Appears in the Magazine "ENGINE"
"Project ORI Wine" provided us with a rich harvest. It is an agricultural projec...
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2019/06/13
We all worked hard for pruning and training of the vines.
We would like to introduce one of our activities of PROJECT ORI WINE. We could s...
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2017/09/15
It's time to harvest Pinot Noir and Chardonnay this year! Pinot Noir Chardonnay ...
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2016/08/05
Article about Project ORI WINE appeared in "ENGINE" September 2016 issue with th...
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2015/05/05
Lectures on grow grapes by a specialist from University of California, Davis
The Osato Research Institute (ORI) were asked by the local government office for...