It was a hot afternoon when summer vacation had just begun. Grape juice I drank at my grandma's house after walking sweaty on a dusty road in the countryside.

"When you get tired, grape juice is the best."

Grape juice chilled by grandma in well water is not too cold, not too lukewarm, not too sweet. It's a precious memory when I was in elementary school.

So, this time, we ordered the wine juice "Natural Grape Liquid" (red) (Asaya Grape Brewery) from the wine shopping site "Katsunuma Budou no Oka, Koshu City". The grapes used were American Concord.

Take it out of the elongated box and you'll see a bottle of grape juice. The price is 1,050 yen per bottle, which is expensive for juice, but it has a deep color that looks like red wine.

Grape juice like wine.


The taste is refreshing, but it is rich and heavy like wine. You may drink it as it is or by dividing it with carbonic acid.

Here is a bit of a note of wine.

Wine did not come to Japan for the first time from Europe after the Meiji era. There is a rumor that it has been made by fermenting grape juice since the Jomon period. Since the end of the 15th century, there are some documents about who drank wine, so there is a deep relationship between Japanese and wine.

In the Meiji era, there were many grape farmers in Katsunuma Village (now Koshu City), and a company that made wine was also started.

The grape juice I ordered this time was wine that was born in a winery.