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Major Wine Events in Israel

By ⋅ September 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Judean Hills Wine Festival During the month of October, 25 wineries in the region will be open to members of the public. Visits to the wineries will be free. To obtain a full schedule of which wineries will be open on which days telephone *8108. Every Friday, those can spend 50NIS and get a tour [...]

Israeli Wine on Social Media

By ⋅ July 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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 Israeli [...]

Segal Argaman wins Gold Medal at Bordeaux Wine Competition

By ⋅ June 19, 2010 ⋅ One comment

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 in [...]

Social Media and the Wine Industry

By ⋅ January 28, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

[I plan to write much more on this next week, but here is a post that I wrote on Daniel Rogov's forum] In response to the discussions [on Rogov's forum] about blogging and the wine industry, I just found out that Lift9 (a social media marketing agency – I have no affiliation with them nor [...]

A Decade of Israeli Wine 2000-2009

By ⋅ December 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve written about Israeli wine from Biblical Times until the 1990s. Here’s Israeli wine from the last decade: Now is the time to look back at the 2000’s, as the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close. It was a very good decade for Israeli wines. The boutique boom that began in [...]

Israel’s Wines of Celebration

By ⋅ December 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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

By ⋅ October 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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, [...]

Israel’s Forgotten Brandies

By ⋅ October 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Twitter Introduces Wine Blogger to the World of Israeli Wine

By ⋅ August 22, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

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. [...]

Learn To Love Carignan

By ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

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 [...]

Tasting Dalton’s Sauvignon Blanc from the Wine Tasting Guy

By ⋅ April 29, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

Another health benefit of wine: A deterrent of food poisoning

By ⋅ June 3, 2008 ⋅ One comment

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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