Archive for the ‘Wine 101’ Category
Israeli Wine on Social Media
31, Jul 2010Share Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are all the rage, but we’ve been covering Israeli wine on social media for over 3 years! Here are some great sources to discover Israeli wine on social media. What are your favorites? Support blue and white – become a fan of Israeli wine on Facebook. Tweet tweet. Check out [...]
Share Segal Argaman 2007 from Dovev Vineyard in the Upper Galilee, has won the equivalent of a Gold Medal at ‘Les Citadelles du Vins’ Competition held in Bordeaux, France. Argaman is a cross between Carignan and Souzao, a Portuguese variety. Avi Feldstein, winemaker of Segal Wines, produced a single vineyard wine from Argaman grapes grown [...]
Israel’s Wines of Celebration
8, Dec 2009Share Sparkling wine is the wine of fashion and celebration. Whether on New Year’s Eve or at a wedding, it remains the classic wine to make a toast with. It is also symbol of success and happiness. Though it is a style of wine that has taken Israelis time to learn to appreciate, sparkling wines [...]
Israel’s World Class Dessert Wines
30, Oct 2009Share Unfortunately most Israelis associate sweet wines with Kiddush and religious ritual, and therefore the very word ‘sweet’ has connotations of a cheap and nasty wine. Something which is to be avoided, at all costs. However some of the world’s most sought after and expensive wines are sweet, pudding wines. An Eiswein or Trockenbeerenauslese from [...]
- In: Wine 101|Wines
- Tags: Carmel, dessert wine, Golan Heights Winery, heights wine, Robert Parker
Israel’s Forgotten Brandies
23, Oct 2009Share Twenty years ago there was a large market for Israeli brandies. Stock 84 and Brandy 777 were big domestic brands. In the 1990’s Carmel & Tishbi brandies won major international recognition at the very highest possible level. Yet high domestic taxes and the fact that brandy just drifted out of fashion, have contributed to [...]
Share I love how social media can be used to introduce people to Israeli wine. On my Twitter account (@hakerem – you arefollowing me, I presume), I found a wine blogger who was looking for some wine tips. Well, first we bonded over a few tweets about (the lack of) social media in the wine [...]
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Learn To Love Carignan
17, Aug 2009Share This is a guest post by Adam Montefiore, which was first published in www.wines-israel.com These were the words of an English wine journalist who visited Israel four times in the last 15 years and claimed to know to what was good for the Israeli wine industry. His parting advice was: “Learn to love Carignan. [...]
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Share Wine tasting is an important part of wine appreciating. I’ve long had a section on wine tasting. Now, the aptly named Wine Tasting Guy, a fellow passionate lover of Israeli wine, has a few videos about wine tasting and a taste of a recent release from Israel’s Dalton Winery that he tasted while visiting [...]
- In: Wine 101|Wineries
- Tags: Dalton, Dalton Winery, wine tasting
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