Archive for May, 2008
Rogov on Vitkin
29, May 2008Tweet In Daniel Rogov’s latest column in Ha’aretz, he tastes the interesting wine from Vitkin. This is a taste of Rogov’s thoughts: Assaf Paz, the winemaker at Vitkin Winery, is doing some pretty strange things. The winery, a family affair producing about 40,000 bottles annually, has refused so far to fit into the standard mold. [...]
Israwinexpo 2008
29, May 2008Tweet In case you missed it. Not like the real thing (no tasting on the video!) but more reason to visit Israel next year and drink Israeli wine — or if you are here this summer, check out the Jerusalem wine festival!
- In: Events
- Tags: Israwinexpo, ISRAWINEXPO 2008
Wine Spectator discusses Israel
26, May 2008Tweet The latest (June 30) issue of the Wine Spectator has an article about Israeli wine as well as a travel piece on the Galilee, including food and wine. I haven’t yet seen the article yet, but the editor and author, Kim Marcus, also scores numerous Israeli wines. Here are the scores (please correct me [...]
- In: Wine industry|Wineries
- Tags: Kim Marcus, scores, tasting notes, Wine Spectator
Israeli wine on WineSpectator.com
24, May 2008Tweet Wine Spectator has a fascinating little video on Israeli wine (with a Dalton Chardonnay and a Clos De Gat red blend) from editor Kim Marcus. I can’t embed it but it’s currently on the Wine Spectator home page but this is what I think is the permalink to it — check it out! Here [...]
- In: Wineries
- Tags: Clos de Gat, Dalton, Kim Marcus, Wine Spectator
Dalton Winery in the Rockville (MD) Gazette
22, May 2008Tweet It may not be Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, Decanter, or the Wine Spectator – all important industry publications that have recently covered or are about to cover Israeli wine – but there is a newspaper that just published an article about Israel’s Dalton Winery that I think is even more important. But, unless you [...]
Carmel: From Sacramental to Single Vineyard
21, May 2008Tweet I promise that this is the last post about Carmel Winery for a little while, but I promised last month some more information and news about Carmel and this post about Carmel’s quality revolution (which definitely does include the opening up of the Yatir Winery) just doesn’t cut it. But, since the story of [...]
- In: Wineries
- Tags: Adam Montefiore, Carmel, Carmel Winery, Israeli wineries, Wineries
Israeli wine hits Decanter
20, May 2008Tweet An article about Israeli wine is in this month’s Decanter, the UK’s finest wine magazine. For copyright reasons, I’m not posting it but it can be purchased via Decanter’s website. In addition, there will be an article in next month’s Wine Spectator, expected to hit newsstands in late June. It’s great to see Israeli [...]
- In: Reviews|Wine industry
Thanks! Todah Rabah!
20, May 2008Tweet Thanks! We’ve hit over 10,000 unique hits in just about 6 months! It’s great to know that there are so many fans of Israeli wine and a market for news about Israeli wine in English. Keep reading, keep linking, and please encourage others to read, link, and drink Israeli wine! And if you have [...]
- In: Wine industry
Carmel’s Quality Revolution
19, May 2008Tweet One of the most important stories of the Israeli wine world is the quality revolution that took place (and is continuing with continuing improvements) at Carmel Wineries. Carmel Wineries, founded in 1882, is one of Israel’s oldest producers of wine (and, I suspect, oldest producer of table wines) and certainly the most famous Israeli [...]
- In: Wine industry|Wineries
- Tags: Carmel, Carmel Winery, quality revolution
Tweet I want to point out a little-known feature of this blog – the store. Yes, one of the important functions of HaKerem is not merely a list of wine essentials – from books, DVDs, and accessories like stemware and wine fridges – but also the opportunities to order them online via Amazon.com. I want [...]
- In: Wine 101
On the Israeli wine web
13, May 2008Tweet Anyone who knows me knows that one of my passions is wine marketing and especially emerging technologies and wine marketing. Well, not entirely emerging (although I do remember first surfing the web in the 1990s and reading Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat – one of my new favorite books — brought back some [...]
- In: Wine industry|Wineries
- Tags: Castel, marketing, strategic communication, Tom Friedman, web, website, wine marketing, wine web, world wide web, WWW
Six wines for sixty years
12, May 2008Tweet Check out this new article by Adam Montefiore on the history of Israel wine since independence. As Israel celebrates Yom Hatzma’ut – Independence Day for the 60th time, I have been given the task to look back and select a wine to cover each decade. This is not necessarily meant to be a list [...]
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