Located in Aya, Miyazaki, Katsuki Wines is a boutique family-run winery focused on creating small production, handmade natural wines. After over a decade in New Zealand and Germany making and studying wine, Yoshitada Katsuki returned to his native Miyazaki to pursue the family- and community- based winemaking he experienced abroad. He hand-selected and personally imported a diverse lineup of varieties suited to Miyazaki’s challenging climate, and, inspired by Akinori Kimura’s “Miracle Apples,” began completely pesticide, herbicide, and chemical fertilizer free sustainable grape production in 2013. Adapting Japanese table grape growing techniques to European wine grape varieties, Yoshi grows quality organic wine grapes previously thought impossible for the region.