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More photos from Carmel

30, Apr 2008

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Carmel Winery – The History of Israeli Wine

30, Apr 2008

Share Carmel Mizrahi Winery was founded in 1882 and is, 126 years later, Israel’s largest and most famous winery. While not the first winery in Israel, it is the most well known and for many years (and even today) often serves as the face for Israeli wine. This can be good or bad, depending on [...]

Canada: Support quality Israeli wine

29, Apr 2008

Share Here is an interesting article from the Canadian Jewish Independent on Israeli wine and my favorite part – the business and export side of quality wine. Nice focus on Carmel and Flam, including quotes from the legendary Adam Montefiore of Carmel and also Golan Flam of Flam. Nice to see Israeli wine getting noticed [...]

The story of Israel is the story of wine

28, Apr 2008

Share Here are some pictures from ancient times (Byzantine era to the Babylonian era) of wine vats (called amphorae, also the name of a great winery in Israel – which is selling under the name Marvah in the United States) that were discovered off Israel’s coast. They were used by ships near the Mediterranean and [...]

Carmel

25, Apr 2008

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Carmel Winery – Zichron Ya’akov

24, Apr 2008

Share I visited Carmel Winery’s Zichron Ya’akov winery yesterday. I will have more to come later.

Rimon in the Seattle Times

24, Apr 2008

Share I apologize that I had not posted this earlier, but apparently if you sent e-mail to israelwineblog@gmail.com, I did not receive it. Here is an interesting article on Rimon (which is not from grapes and many critics do not consider it a wine) from the Seattle Times: Sunday, January 20, 2008 – Page updated [...]

Galil Mountain vineyards

23, Apr 2008

Share I opened up an EXCELLENT 2004 Yiron Syrah from Galil Mountain last Friday. Here is where the wine came from:

Some pictures

22, Apr 2008

Share I won’t be updating too much over Passover, but I will be posting a few wine-related pictures throughout the holiday, some my own – others from PR and other sources.

Chag Pesach Sameach – Happy Passover

18, Apr 2008

Share It’s almost Shabbat and then immediately after will be the beginning of the Passover holiday, the celebration of the Jewish people’s deliverance from slavery to our home in Israel. And, above all, this is a holiday in which Jews throughout the world will be sitting down and drinking wine. So, to all my readers [...]


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