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Dalton

By ⋅ March 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Israel’s Upper Galilee is one of the best areas to make wine. Dalton Winery was founded in 1993 by Mat Haruni and is consistently making high quality wines at reasonable prices. In fact, Daniel Rogov writes that “Dalton has earned a consistently good name for high quality wines, providing excellent value for money.” It is [...]

Golan Heights

By ⋅ March 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Will have much more to say about Golan Heights Winery (had some excellent wines from them last week), but in the meantime, here’s a picture I took last Monday of an Israeli flag flying over their steel barrels outside of their winery in Katzrin, on the Golan Heights.

ISRAEL21c covers the Israwinexpo 2008

By ⋅ March 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

ISRAEL21c’s new video format was at the ISRAEWINEXPO. I admit that I wish I had pitched this to them myself, but the video is a nice montage of scenes and quotes from officials in the Israeli wine industry (although I would have preferred someone other than Hevron Heights Winery and more talk about the non-kosher [...]

Gary V on Internet Marketing

By ⋅ March 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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Reporting from the Israwinexpo

By ⋅ March 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

So I returned Wednesday night from the first public night of the Israwinexpo 2008, Israel’s 2nd international wine trade show. While the two public days were mostly wine tastings attended by Israel’s growing oenophiles (and a few tourists, including my parents), the first day was only for professionals. Journalists from Wine Spectator, Decanter (one of [...]

A word of caution about wine ratings

By ⋅ March 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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