Yatir
Posted on November 30, 2007 - Filed Under Video, Wineries | Leave a Comment
Yatir Winery is another great Israeli winery. All the Yatir wines that I have drunk have truly stood out as some of the best wine that I have ever drunk. Smooth, complex, and just tasty, Yatir is a winery in the Negev (the Negev! Desert!) formed with partnership with Carmel.
There’s not much to say about [...]
Psagot Winery
Posted on November 29, 2007 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov, Wineries | Leave a Comment
Monday night I had the opportunity to taste five truly amazing wines. While most were from California (including Covenant’s second label, the Cabernet Sauvignon Red Sea 2003), there was one unique and special wine from Israel. In fact, it was from a winery that I had never tried before: Psagot.
While we didn’t take formal tasting [...]
The last word on new wine, the first word on Israeli wine culture
Posted on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Millenials, Wine Basics, Wine Festivals | Leave a Comment
I promise, promise, promise that this my last post for 2007 on the Beaujolais Nouveau. However, I just saw an interesting article in Ha’aretz about the Israeli wine culture.
While winetastingguy noted that wine consumption in America is on the rise, he pointed out that he wasn’t sure what the numbers were in Israel. Well, according [...]
Tzuba Winery
Posted on November 27, 2007 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Video, Wineries | Leave a Comment
This video is a fascinating introduction to Tzuba Winery. Unforunately, it’s all in Hebrew, which makes its usefulness rather limited outside of Israel. I often wonder why Israel doesn’t invest more in English-language material on its wineries. There is even an Israeli wine forum or two that attacks the few outlets for Israeli wine in [...]
Read More..>>Tabor - Young and Fun
Posted on November 26, 2007 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | Leave a Comment
This is Israeli wine. Fun, vibrant, and undiscovered.
If you haven’t had Tabor wines, try it. Several of my friends swear by it.
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Happy Thanksgiving
Posted on November 22, 2007 - Filed Under Wine Events | Leave a Comment
I just want to wish my readers in the United States a very happy and healthy Thanksgiving holiday full of good cruelty-free food (Yes, I do miss the Tofurkey and saw a fascinating documentary Sunday night about how Jewish values support a vegetarian diet in order to be shomrei adama - guardians of the earth) [...]
Read More..>>It’s here… The countdown is over… if you live in Israel
Posted on November 21, 2007 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I wrote last week about the release of the 2007 vintages of Israeli wines, and specifically beaujolais-style. Well, it turns out, of course, that only one of the young wines are true beaujolais-style – the Gamay Noveau from the Golan Heights Winery. But, GHW has also already released the 2007 Moscato and Tishbi, Carmel, and [...]
Read More..>>Learning about wine
Posted on November 21, 2007 - Filed Under Wine Basics | Leave a Comment
Questions for anyone who happened to stop by this blog:
When did you start learning about/appreciating wine?
Why do you like wine?
How do you learn about wine? Books? Which ones? Courses? Where? Winery tours? What countries/regions?
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Marketing to the “millenials”
Posted on November 20, 2007 - Filed Under Millenials | Leave a Comment
One of the topics of this blog will be the young wine drinker, the late Gen X and the Millenial (1975-legal drinking age).
I just received an e-mail from Gary Vaynerchuk, the brash, pedestrian, young host of Wine Library TV, a video podcast about wine, and Director of Operations at his father’s megaliquor store, Wine Library, [...]
Israeli is not a synonym for kosher
Posted on November 19, 2007 - Filed Under Kosher and Jewish, Wine Basics | Leave a Comment
I don’t know whether to be happy that many people have already discovered this blog after only a week of existence or upset that many – by no means all – discovered this blog because they were looking for information on kosher wine.
This will be a constant refrain on this blog:
ISRAELI DOES NOT MEAN KOSHER
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