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Archive for September, 2011

Israeli Wine Festival in Ramat Aviv

David Rhodes talking about the Ramat Aviv Wine Festival with DJ Richard Freeman on Rustymikeradio.com

Food & wine pairing for the holidays

David Rhodes talks about Israeli wine and food & wine pairing for the holidays David Rhodes discusses wine and food pairing for Rosh Hashana

The Kosher Wine Making Revolution in Israel

The following article was written by David Rhodes. for Viewpoint Magazine, for the Young Israel movement and National Council of Young Israel Magazine. Download the PDF, Viewpoint-WineMakingIsrael

Raise your glass! Wine recommendations for Rosh Hashana

The Jerusalem Post has published an edited version of my article Wine Recommendations for Rosh Hashana. Read the article in the Jerusalem Post. Below is an excerpt from the article: What’s good in Israel? Israeli wine! Wine recommendations for Rosh Hashanah By Avi Hein, Editor-in-Chief: HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog It’s not a Jewish holiday [...]

Some New Israeli Wines for the New Year

Wine has evolved over the millennium into an important part of celebrations for billions of people all around the world. Yet, for Jews in and outside of Israel it holds special significance. Every week’s Friday night dinner and Saturday lunch, it’s common to go through a bottle or two of wine with family, friends and [...]

More Great Israeli Wines Make it to the US

Keeping up with the Jones is tough.  Keeping up with the Mondavi’s is even harder.  Cabernets, Merlots, and even Zinfandels from California to France keep getting top headlines and top scores.  With the Israeli wine scene growing by the day, coming up with the right taste for an ever evolving pallet is the biggest challenge [...]

Indulge in Israeli wine

A review of the Jerusalem Wine Festival

Corkage: An Insider’s Tip on Saving Money on Wine

The following is from ESRA Magazine and reprinted with permission of the author. In Israel, there’s an underused practice that could save you a lot of money when eating out and drinking wine. In the United States and in Europe, it’s very common to be able to bring your own wine to a restaurant. The [...]

Dalia Penn-Lerner. A blessing for Israeli Wine.

This article is from wines-israel.com and printed with permission of the author   It is proving to be a sad month for Israeli wine. A week ago Israel’s number one wine critic, Daniel Rogov, passed away. Now just a week later, on September 14th, the death of Dalia Penn-Lerner has been announced. Dalia Penn-Lerner, 75, [...]

Zichron Yaakov – Center of Israel’s Wine Country

A Wine Critic Felled Before His Time

Gamliel Kronemer, the New York Jewish Week’s wine writer and a fellow member of Rogov’s forum, wrote a fitting tribute to Daniel in this week’s New York Jewish Week. Some highlights: It was after he had moved to Israel, that David Joroff adopted the pen name Daniel Rogov. Joroff was a shy, private man, and [...]

Israeli Harvest: An Early Report: “So Far, So Good…”

…says winemaker Golan Tishbi. “It’s a lot better than last year.” as he tends to his family’s estate vines in Zichron Ya’acov and who harvests grapes from all over Israel to produce about 1 million bottles every year at Israel’s 6th largest winery.  The Tishbi Winery has already harvested several kinds of grape varietals from [...]