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News for October 2022

Autumn has arrived, and restrictions on international travel to Japan have finally been lifted!
To celebrate, in addition to a 50% discount special on all our rosé wines, we are offering 20% discount on all False Bay Vineyards and Spice Route Winery wines, and 10% discount on all Creation Wines, Lanzerac, and Druk My Niet wines.

We also have up to 35% OFF on rosé wine sets: Stone Town Rosé Set, False Bay Rosé Set, Druk My Niet Rosé Set, Lanzerac Rosé Set, Creation Rosé Set. These sets are all shipping free.

While inflation is seeing costs rising across the board in Japan, we are keeping our prices fixed for the time being. Please see our other wine sets for great value for money to try South African wines. These are all shipping free.

See our online shop, or contact us for purchases and shipping information. Free shipping and collections possible within Mitaka City, Kichijoji and surrounding areas.

Other news

On 5th March 2021 we presented a seminar on South African wines, with tasting, at Caplan Wine Academy (https://www.caplan.jp/wine/class/special/210305_protea/index.html).

In September 2020 we were featured in the Asahi Shinbun newspaper (https://www.asahi.com/articles/DA3S14609426.html).

Welcome to Protea Wines Japan!

We’re a Tokyo-based wine importer specializing in South African wines. Our mission is to make a variety of high-quality and easy-drinking wines accessible to the Japanese market.

Our suppliers are passionate about wine and its production, and we are thus well-placed to make available a continuum of highly-regarded wines on a regular basis. In this age, there is ample room both for conservative and modern wine production methods to satisfy lovers of tradition as well as experimentation.

About

Protea Wines Japan grew out of a long-term dream to bring happiness and serve others by means of that which we are passionate about: namely wines, and sunny South Africa.

After a period of research and introspection, we built up contacts among estates and farms in the Western Cape region of South Africa, with an interest in Japan. This incredible positive energy from like-minded men and women sharing a love of wine is the engine that drives us onward to realize our dream.

Building on our dual Japanese and South African heritage, we blend our access to a personal network of passionate wine producing estates and farms, with decades-long trust earned in Japan, thereby allowing us to serve an ever-increasing variety of both conservative and modern wines for lovers of tradition as well as ecletic palates.

Our primary goal is to make these South African wines more accessible to the Japanese market, via restaurants and wine shops in the Tokyo region and elsewhere in Japan.

We are planning several extra services to be announced publicly in due course, which we hope will draw many more people into the fold of South African wine lovers.

Please stay tuned!

Wine Estates and Farms

Shortlist of estates and wine farms whose products we are bringing to the Japanese market. Please see the individual pages in the menu for each estate for details.

1. False Bay Vineyards
  Based at Waterkloof estate, located near the Helderberg overlooking Gordon’s Bay and the Strand, and facing the Hottentot’s Holland Mountain range, a farm run on the principle of Biodynamics, ensuring healthy natural wines free of chemical additives and pesticides, the False Bay brand sources bush vine grapes from local vineyards to express the subtleties of the terroir with minimal intervention and fermented with wild yeast.
  http://falsebayvineyards.co.za/
2. Creation Wines
  Situated in the Hemel-en-Aarde valley a few kilometres inland from scenic Hermanus on the South Coast, here we have a new wine-producing area rich in micro-climates, with this estate run by an experienced European wine maker keen to make a mark in this exciting fertile landscape.
  http://www.creationwines.com
3. Druk-My-Niet
  Based along the Paarl wine route, this estate, whose name translates as “don’t squeeze me”, has won accolades for its selection of wines, produced with the vision of making excellent wines available at exceptionally reasonable cost.
  http://www.dmnwines.co.za
4. Spice Route Winery
  A recent creation by the owner of the famous Fairview estate, sourced from vineyards in Darling in the Swartland, famous for Sauvignon Blanc and dryland farming. The wines we are bringing to Japan are reminiscent of the old spice trade route to Zanzibar.
  https://www.spiceroutewines.co.za/
5. Lanzerac
  Stellenbosch is one of the seats of wine-making in the Western Cape, and the Lanzerac is one of the cornerstones, famous for its fine-dining restaurant as well as its range of excellent table wines.
  http://www.lanzerac.co.za/

Contact

You can contact us using the contact form provided, or via email to our mail address which we will answer within 2 business days.

For phone contact please use 090-1616-1493 / 070-5550-9076
International callers should use the Japan country code: +81-90-1616-1493 / +81-70-5550-9076

Please note that we now have an online shop with products from our listed suppliers at the following URL, please feel free to browse the catalogue:
https://www.proteawines.jp/shop/

Any feedback is most welcome and can be made using the above contact means.

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