Château Lumière

The winery is located near Katsunuma in the Yamanashi area to the west of Tokyo in Japan. The owner, Toshihiko Tsukamoto, comes from a Japanese family with a winemaking tradition. His great-grandfather Tokuyoshi Furuya is considered a wine-growing pioneer. Tsukamoto's grandfather Komanosuke Furuya founded the Koshu-en winery in 1885, which subsequently covered 28 hectares of vineyards. During the US occupation after the Second World War (1939-1945), 27 hectares were confiscated. The current owner, Toshihiko Tsukamoto, studied economics and then learnt viticulture at the University of California, among other places. He began rebuilding Koshu-en in the mid-1960s and gave the winery its current name.

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