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On Meeting with Daniel Rogov

25, Aug 2011

Tweet In going from winery to winery, wine event to wine event and talking to winemakers, employees and wine customers in Israel, one of the names that frequently comes up in conversation about wine is food and wine critic Daniel Rogov.  His critiques in Israel pick apart the idiosyncracies of a restaurant’s food, service and atmosphere [...]

Israeli TV: Wine for Passover (Hebrew)

12, Apr 2011

Tweet Looking for Israeli wine for Passover. Israeli critic Niv Gilboa explores Israeli wine for Passover on Israel’s Channel 10 news.

Rare Brandy Tasting

30, Mar 2011

Tweet The following is from wines-israel.com and reprinted with permission. A rare and unique brandy tasting was recently held by Carmel Winery. It was held in the ‘Baron Edmond de Rothschild Tasting Room’ at ZichronYa’acov Wine Cellars. It was appropriately held at Purim and on St. Patrick’s Day – traditional days for Jews & the [...]

Mark Squires tastes More Israeli wine

4, Mar 2011

Tweet When I first visited Eli Ben Zaken of Castel, in 2006, he said that he was waiting for the Wine Advocate to start noticing Israeli wines. It seems, his wish has happened. Mark Squires, of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, has just reviewed 11 Israeli wines in the latest issue (#193). All of the wines [...]

Michel Rolland Tastes Yatir

31, Jan 2011

Tweet The following is from Israeli Wines and reprinted with permission ‘TASTED’ is arguably the finest wine magazine you will have seen in your life, or maybe even the most stylish of any magazine that you will ever see. Visually the photographs are sensational and lifelike. Each magazine is a collectors’ item, to be kept [...]

Esther Cohen tastes Dalton Viognier

13, Jan 2011

Tweet Esther Cohen of My Israel Wine Tours tastes Dalton’s Viognier.

Carmel Winery wins Prestigious Decanter World Wine Award – Carmel Kayumi Shiraz

8, Sep 2010

Tweet Congratulations to Carmel Winery and winemaker Lior Laxter, and the whole team for Carmel Winery’s recent win at the Decanter World Wine Awards! As Decanter described it: Carmel Winery in Upper Galilee has beaten some of the world’s most renowned producers of Syrah and Shiraz at the Decanter World Wine Awards. The Galilean winery [...]

Decanter Picks Carmel Petit Sirah as Wine of the Month

2, Jul 2010

Tweet Carmel Winery’s Appellation Petite Sirah 2006 has been selected by Decanter Wine Magazine as Wine of the Month in their July 2010 issue. This is the first time since the 1990’s that an Israeli wine has received this prestigious award. Decanter is one of the world’s most famous wine magazines with their contributors being [...]

Rogov’s Revolution: Guide to Kosher & Israeli Wines

14, Dec 2009

Tweet Those who live in Israel know that each year new Israeli wineries keep on opening up and new wines are constantly released. Old wineries keep on improving and competing with the best. With over 250 wineries in Israel, both certified kosher and not, the Israeli wine world has changed rapidly and it’s even hard [...]

10 Best Wineries in Israel

20, Oct 2009

Tweet Daniel Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wine is coming out in a few weeks for 2010 (How did that happen?). He’s been publishing this annual guide to Israeli wine for the past several years and it keeps on getting bigger and bigger. One of the most interesting sections of Daniel Rogov’s Israeli wine tasting guide [...]

The (Kosher) Wine Detective

16, Sep 2009

Tweet Wine Spectator is currently holding its 2009 Video Content and 9 finalists have been announced. Among the video finalists is a little known wine critic named Daniel Rogov talking about wine from a little known wine region called ISRAEL. Unfortunately, I can’t embed the video but it’s available here (and then click here to [...]

10 Reasons Why I Love Gary V

10, Sep 2009

Tweet In honor of Gary Vaynerchuk’s appearance in Wednesday’s New York Times, I’ve compiled my own Top 10 Reasons Why I love Gary V! 10 Reasons why I love Gary Vaynerchuk 10. Gary V reminds me a little of myself. Gary Vaynerchuk turned his father’s Shoppers Discount Liquor into the $60 million a year Wine [...]


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