Hokuten-no-Shizuku北天の雫
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A white-wine grape with yamabudo lineage, often making a fresh white with pear- and apple-like aromas and clean acidity.
Hokuten-no-Shizuku is a Japanese crossing presented as a white-wine grape on the Shimura Grape Research Institute's official site. That page lists Gyoja-no-Mizu, a yamabudo line, as the female parent and Chardonnay as the male parent, while an official Ibaraki feature and several producer documents list Riesling instead. Because these published primary and producer sources do not agree, this page does not assert a single parent combination. Wines made from the variety can show pear, apple and banana aromas together with refreshing acidity and some breadth.
Notes on aroma and taste describe general tendencies for this grape, not claims about any particular wine — the actual character depends on the producer and how it is made.
Statements of fact — origin, crossing, plant-variety registration and growing regions — have been checked against public bodies, research institutes, or the breeder (1 sources).
- dr-tomio.com 2026-08-28
Wineries growing Hokuten-no-Shizuku
1 listed wineries are recorded by their sources as growing this grape.