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Chateau Uenae (Hokkaido Snow Beef)

Extremely small — 1-2 head harvested per month.

Lake Utonai, Hokkaido, Japan

ExemplaryVerified

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Exemplary

Quality assessment

A single named private-reserve farm — Chateau Uenae Lake Farm on the banks of Lake Utonai, Hokkaido (Japan's first Ramsar Convention wetland site) — producing Japanese Black wagyu certified as Hokkaido Snow Beef, all of it A5. Only one to two head are harvested per month, and only about ten distributors worldwide are certified to sell it. Single farm, named location, A5-only certification and extreme scarcity are exactly what the exemplary tier describes.

Scale
Extremely small — 1-2 head harvested per month.
Feed & inputs
Not published in located sources.
Animal welfare
Cold-climate Hokkaido rearing; specifics not published in located sources.
Environmental
Farm sits beside Lake Utonai, a Ramsar-designated wild bird sanctuary; no certification claim attached.
Transparency
Medium-high — the farm is named and the certification is controlled, but there is no independent public registry entry located for 'Hokkaido Snow Beef' comparable to the Omi GI.

Caveats

HIGH SUBSTITUTION RISK — at 1-2 head a month globally, a venue serving this should hold documentation from a certified distributor. Treat an undocumented 'Snow Beef' menu line as unverified. Echo & Rig Henderson's signal is a menu fragment ('/E (Mishima Reserve)' style parse noise) and should be re-checked at source before crediting.

Rare, low-volume A5 wagyu 'Craft Wagyu' farm on the banks of Lake Utonai, Hokkaido; began as an integrated Wagyu R&D farm. No official farm site found, only distributor (Craftwagyu) pages.

Products

Hokkaido Snow Beef (A5 Kuroge wagyu)

Practices

cold-climate rearing

Served at

Sources

What the quality assessment above is built on.