Hugh Johnson’s 2009 Wine Report feature Israeli wines
Posted on August 31, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Report 2009, to be released in October, lists no less than twenty six wineries. This international guide provides a comprehensive survey of wineries from around the world: France, United States, England, Cyprus, and, of course, Israel. Hugh Johnson’s Wine Report is the largest selling wine book in the world, published annually [...]
Read More..>>Golan Flam, Flam Winery
Posted on August 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
(Courtesy Flickr, photostream of Richard Shaffer, Israeli Wine Direct)
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Domaine du Castel’s Barrel Room
Posted on August 28, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | 1 Comment
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Exclusive: Israeli supermarket chain in negotiations to buy Binyamina Winery
Posted on August 27, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment
Binyamina Winery is for sale! The Israeli discount supermarket chain Chetzi Chinam is currently in negotiations to buy Israel’s fifth largest winery, Binyamina, according to the Israeli Hebrew press. This site is the first place to report this story in ENGLISH.
According to the Israeli financial newspaper, Globes, the negotiation between the heads of Hetzi Hinam [...]
Where to Buy Wine from Israel
Posted on August 26, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | 5 Comments
One of the challenges about writing about Israeli wine is that the story is still not out. Particularly outside of the observant kosher wine-drinking population (who then ignore great wines like Clos de Gat, Flam, Pelter, Saslove, etc.), many people still have never drank Israeli wine. Reading comments on Gary Vaynerchuk’s Wine Library TV pages [...]
Read More..>>Meet Roy Yitzhaki of Tulip Winery
Posted on August 24, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment
Ha’aretz’s Family Affair section in the weekend paper profiled Roy Yitzhaki, owner of Tulip Winery, last month. Yitzhaki, 30, started the winery while still in college (in his mid-20s), and also runs a marketing company with Saslove in Tel Aviv. Very interesting to see a true entrepreneur. Tulip, whose first release was only in 2004, [...]
Read More..>>Rogov’s Reviews: Golan Heights Winery - Still at the forefront
Posted on August 20, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | 2 Comments
Golan Heights Winery is perhaps the best known large Israeli winery. They started the Israeli wine revolution and continue to lead the pack in quality. Daniel Rogov’s latest Israeli wine review in Ha’aretz is below.
Wine and Spirits / Still at the forefront: Golan Heights
By Daniel Rogov
Since it released its first wine from the [...]
Why Israeli Wine is World Class (My Philosophy on What is Good Wine)
Posted on August 18, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | 4 Comments
Israeli wine is world class. Yes, we’ve heard this recently from the likes of Robert Parker, Mark Squires, Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Spectator, Decanter, and other wine critics and trade publications. But I think they’ve all got it a bit wrong.
Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not necessarily disagreeing with their scores and I’ll take the 93 that [...]
Rogov’s Reviews: Best Deals on Local Wines
Posted on August 17, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The latest Ha’aretz review from Israeli wine critic Daniel Rogov. This time, on what he calls good values in local wines. Note that all the prices are the Israeli local price and not abroad. Are the non-kosher wines available in the US beyond those carried by Israeli Wine Direct?
Wine and Spirits / Best deals on [...]
Agur Winery (French)
Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Video | 2 Comments
Israeli wine isracontact.com - wideo
He speaks in French and Hebrew, so I only understood what Agur Winemaker Shuki Yashuv said in Hebrew, but for Francophiles, this is a little taste of Shuki Yashuv and Agur Winery. I had the pleasure of tasting Agur at the Jerusalem Wine Festival and was absolutely blown away by this [...]
