Tu B’Av: The Holiday of Love and Wine
Posted on August 13, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | 2 Comments
This weekend is the little-known Jewish holiday of Tu B’Av, the 15th of the Hebrew month of Av. This unique holiday is not one marked by fasting, or extra praying, or lighting candles or other similar rituals. Rather, this day marks love and is celebrated by eating good food and drinking summer wine. Whether Jewish [...]
Read More..>>Carmel, Avidan, Pelter, Chateau Golan, Savion: Daniel Rogov’s Reviews
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | 2 Comments
Israeli wine critic Daniel Rogov’s latest wine review in Ha’aretz continues the last post of Carmel’s rise in quality and includes numerous great Israeli wines. Read the full review here or below:
Wine and Spirits / Critics’ darling
By Daniel Rogov
In recent months Israeli wines have become the darling of critics in the United States. Several months [...]
Carmel Winery’s Quality Revolution Continues
Posted on August 5, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | 4 Comments
Carmel’s quality revolution is not over. In the past few years, Carmel Winery has made serious changes in management, viticulture, and structure. They created new excellent top level wines including the Appellation series which provides great value-for-money and the Single Vineyard smash hits. Slowly and unnoticed by us “wine snobs” their supermarket Selected and Private [...]
Read More..>>Gary Vaynerchuk & Wine Library TV taste non-kosher Israeli wine
Posted on August 4, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Video | Leave a Comment
These wines are all available for purchase in the United States via Israeli Wine Direct and in Israel at your local high class wine store!
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Israeli wine for Shabbat
Posted on August 1, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment
I will be drinking the 2007 Yarden Gewurztraminer tonight with a Shabbat dinner of sushi. This light wine with a variety of foods and this unique varietal is grown in the Golan Heights’ volcanic soil. The 2007 Yarden Gewurztraminer displays an aromatic mix of characters: juicy litchi, fresh flowers, green apple, orange blossom, persimmon and [...]
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