Archive for the ‘Wine 101’ Category
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 have [...]
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 Germany, [...]
- 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 an [...]
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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 industry. [...]
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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. Every [...]
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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 his brother [...]
- In: Wine 101| Wineries
- Tags: Dalton, Dalton Winery, wine tasting
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We all know that wine has many health benefits (in moderation). It’s long been known that red wine can be good for the heart. But apparently, it’s also an effective remedy against food poisoning.
According to research, first reported in October 2007, conducted at the University of Missouri, red wine “appears to act as a [...]
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- Tags: food poisoning, health benefit, red wine, Wines
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I want to point out a little-known feature of this blog – the store. Yes, one of the important functions of HaKerem is not merely a list of wine essentials – from books, DVDs, and accessories like stemware and wine fridges – but also the opportunities to order them online via Amazon.com.
I want to just [...]
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