marie claire recommends Rimon pomegrante wine

Posted on December 3, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | Leave a Comment

The European women’s magazine marie claire suggests a great Christmas gift: pomegranate dessert wine from Israel’s Rimon Winery. This healthy drink, available in Europe (including the UK) and the United States, is a great holiday gift from the Holy Land.

Key ingredient to healthy new wine? Pomegranate
The healthiest red wine on the market is set to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Rogov’s Reviews: Recanati, Yarden, Castel, Galil Mountain, Flam, Vitkin, Dalton, Karmei Yosef

Posted on October 20, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | 1 Comment

That which cheereth God and man
By Daniel Rogov
During the two-week period preceding Rosh Hashanah, Israelis purchase 40 percent of all the wine that is sold during the entire year. It’s not that people go on drinking binges during this time of year, but fine wine is increasingly perceived as part of the cultured way of [...]

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Interview with Adam Montefiore: The Israeli Wine Route

Posted on October 13, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Video | Leave a Comment

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World Wine Report ranks Israeli wines

Posted on October 10, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment

Tom Stevenson’s 2009 World Wine Report has just been released in the UK (and is available at amazon.co.uk) and will be available in the United States at the end of the month.
In addition to ranking wines from around the world, it has a great section about Israel written by Daniel Rogov and Tom Stevenson’s choices [...]

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Wine Spectator: Kosher wines for the High Holidays

Posted on September 26, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | Leave a Comment

The Wine Spectator’s Kim Marcus has a new article on “kosher wines for the High Holidays” in the latest Wine Spectator (free until October 1).

Not surprisingly, all but one of the wines are from Israel. Whether you are Jewish or not, celebrating the holidays or not, these are great wines to seek out. You have [...]

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