Zweigelt - Coco Farm & Winery

100% Zweigelt from Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. From the winemaker: "Zweigelt?….. Zweigelt???? What is it? How does one pronounce it? The Zweigelt grape variety certainly has itʼs share of identity problems. It is not very well  known outside of some tiny corners of the wine world. And itʼs name̶rather clunky and  unpoetic̶doesnʼt help attract followers. “Pinot noir” and “Chardonnay” sound delicious,  mellifluous and rounded as the names roll off the tongue. Say “Zweigelt” and it sounds like  youʼre choking on a fish bone. Which is all too, too unfortunate. Because Zweigelt (some call it “Zwei” to save time) is a  very high quality red wine grape, uniquely suited to making wines of depth in the cold north  of Hokkaido. The grape variety comes from Austria, where it was developed in the early  1900s by one Dr. Zweigelt (howʼd you like to go through life with THAT name!). What Dr.  Zweigelt was hoping to achieve via grape breeding we can only guess, but by crossing the  St. Laurent and Bla