Pasona Group Co., Ltd.
Awaji Nature Farm “Natural circulation winery” Opening in spring 2025 Creating sustainable agriculture on Awaji Island! Achieving
sustainable winemaking
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Awaji Nature Farm Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Representative Director Kosuke Tanaka), a Pasona Group company that is engaged in recycling-oriented agriculture on Awaji Island, is a “natural circulation-oriented winery” that aims to produce natural wine through organic cultivation. It will open in the spring of 2025 near the sustainable garden “Awaji Nature Lab & Resort” (Nojima Tokiwa, Awaji City) operated by the company’s group.
[Image 1: https://prtimes.jp/i/16751/1757/resize/d16751-1757-ee6ee5af67c86d55d54a-0.jpg&s3=16751-1757-4ff595839107089977b10af90c2a7f6e-2000×954.jpg] Awaji Nature Farm has been contributing to local environmental conservation and agricultural promotion by adopting farming methods that emphasize natural circulation. The “Natural Circulation Winery” we are opening this time will have Mr. Hirotake Ooka, a cultivator and winemaker who has continued to make natural wine in France and has earned worldwide acclaim, as an advisor, and will make the most of the power of nature and contribute to the environment. We will work on producing wine with less load. In addition to promoting organic cultivation throughout the entire process from grape cultivation to winemaking, we are building a sustainable, circular agricultural model that grows grapes using fertilizer made from composted food residue from Awaji Island.
The winery also operates as a tourist farm where visitors can experience the charm of natural circulation agriculture. Through tours and wine tasting events, we will communicate the appeal of wine, a regional specialty, and contribute to the promotion of tourism on Awaji Island as a whole.
Through the opening of this winery, Awaji Nature Farm will expand next-generation agricultural initiatives that are considerate to health and the environment, contribute to the revitalization of local agriculture and tourism, and work to increase the number of people involved in agriculture.
■Overview of “Natural Circulation Winery”
Established:
Around spring 2025 (planned)
place:
Nojima Tokiwa, Shiinokigao, Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture
Contents:
・Introducing organic farming methods from grape cultivation to winemaking *Scheduled to apply for JAS certification
・Promoting circular agriculture in which grapes are grown using fertilizer made from composted food residue from the company’s restaurant facilities operated on Awaji Island and partner seafood processing companies.
・Uses special grape varieties “Rizan” and “Ryuo,” which are cultivated only in some of Japan’s leading regions, and are made by selectively improving the varieties of wild grapes.
・In the future, we plan to open the farm as a tourist farm by holding farm tours and wine tasting events.
*Today’s grape harvest is scheduled for around spring 2027. When it opens in spring 2025, it plans to offer natural wine made from organically grown grapes from Kobe City.
remarks:
Information is current and subject to change. Latest information will be announced sequentially
Inquiry:
Awaji Nature Farm Co., Ltd. “Natural circulation winery”
E-mail info@awaji-nlr.com
-Cultivation and Brewing Advisor-Mr. Hirotake Ooka
[Image 2: https://prtimes.jp/i/16751/1757/resize/d16751-1757-789a149106e90606af0e-1.jpg&s3=16751-1757-fc7d43cc5b7e2c459b38a4c2772579c9-529×529.jpg] Born in Tokyo. After graduating from Meiji University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, he moved to France in 1997 and enrolled at Bordeaux BTSA (Advanced Wine and Cultivation Technician Training School), where he learned everything about wine. After that, he became the cultivation manager for GUIGAL, the largest wine maker in the Rhône. In 2002, the company was established as a pioneer of Japanese private wineries in France. He returned to Japan in 2016 and started growing grapes and producing wine in Okayama Prefecture. Together with Mr. Shingo Hayashi, a grape breeder from Okayama Prefecture, he established the “Okayama Vineyard”, a general incorporated association that utilizes abandoned farmland to promote activities ranging from grape cultivation to wine production by the general public. Currently, he is consulting on winemaking in Japan and France. More details about this release:
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