Binyamina’s Baby: Binyamina ‘B’ 2008
Posted on November 27, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Baby Binyamina is the first release of the 2008 vintage from Binyamina Winery. A light and fruity wine, it was released one minute after midnight on November 20. Like Beaujolais wine, the Binyamina B underwent carbonic maceration. This means that this young wine is meant for immediate drinking and not long-term storage.
Unlike Beaujolais wine, the [...]
Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines includes Israeli Yarden
Posted on November 24, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment
There are millions of wines from around the world. Even the best critics don’t know about most wines. Yet, very few of them are in the top 100. However, according to this year’s Wine Spectator, an Israeli wine has made their list of the best 100 wines.
Along with the best old world French chateaus, new [...]
Google’s Top 100 Wine Blogs
Posted on November 21, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
According to the wine site enobytes.com, HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog is one of the top 100 Google wine blogs.
Here are the top 5 blogs:
1 Vinography
2 Wine Library TV
3 Dr Vino
4 The Pour
5 Fermentation
Our good friend Richard’s Israeli Wine Direct blog, about his important business of bringing Israeli wine into [...]
It’s ‘Beaujolais Day,’ in Israel too
Posted on November 19, 2008 - Filed Under Rogov | Leave a Comment
Note: I meant to publish this early last week, but for technical reasons, this post never got published. My apologies.
By Daniel Rogov
As every November, tomorrow dozens of wine stores from Paris to Rio de Janeiro will celebrate the first wines of the 2008 Beaujolais harvest.
Beaujolais nouveau, a red wine, is the most popular vin de [...]
Golan Gamay Noveau 2008
Posted on November 18, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | 1 Comment
Israel’s only Beaujolais-style wine is the Golan Gamay Noveau. The Golan Gamay Noveau is the Golan Heights Winery’s first red wine from the 2008 vintage.
The wine, just like those in the Beaujolais region of France, comes from 100% Gamay grapes, that came from the Tel Fares vineyard on the Golan Heights. The Tel Fares vineyard [...]
Israel’s 2008 Harvest Begins
Posted on November 17, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment
The 2008 harvest has just begun and, here in Israel, a handful of super-young wines have just been released or are about to be released.
The Golan Heights Winery has already released their 2008 Moscato, a light and fizzy wine. This is Daniel Rogov’s tasting note:
Golan Heights Winery, Moscato, Golan, 2008: Oh what a lovely little [...]
Robert Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide recommends Israeli wine
Posted on November 17, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized, Video | Leave a Comment
Those who follow me on Twitter @hakerem will know that Robert Parker released his annual guide to wine, Parker’s Wine Buyers Guide, 7th Edition, in early October. Parker’s guide is a list of some of the world’s best wines (at least according to Robert Parker and his team). Yet, there was something new: Israel was [...]
Read More..>>Rogov’s 2009 Guide to Israeli Wine
Posted on November 13, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov, Video, Wine Festivals | Leave a Comment
Last week, Daniel Rogov unveiled his annual Guide to Israel Wines at Tel Aviv’s Wine Route. Unfortunately, due to horrible traffic, it took me longer-than-anticipated to reach Tel Aviv and I only arrived after the event was over.
Nevertheless, the Israeli food portal Bakbuk was there and covered the event. Most importantly is a video of [...]
The Bible of Israeli Wine
Posted on November 7, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | Leave a Comment
Daniel Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines keeps on getting bigger and bigger. Rogov’s 2009 Guide to Israeli Wines, released last Thursday, is the largest guide yet to Israel’s growing wine industry. While the 2008 guide, including a chapter on wine storage not appearing in the 2009 edition, was a thick 455 pages, the newest edition [...]
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