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Decanter Picks Carmel Petit Sirah as Wine of the Month

2, Jul 2010

Share 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

Share 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

Share 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

Share 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

Share 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 [...]

Galil Mountain Launches “Meron”

14, Aug 2009

Share Galil Mountain Winery, one of the best new world wineries in Israel, has just launched a new wine, which is going to replace their Yiron Syrah. Called the Meron, it is a blend of 78% Syrah, 11% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 11% Petit Verdot. It is now available in Israel’s best wine shops and, I [...]

Daniel Rogov in Hadassah Magazine

15, Jun 2009

Share Israel’s premier food and wine critic, Daniel Rogov, is featured in an article in Hadassah Magazine. The Brooklyn-born, European-trained, Israeli-resident discusses his favorite foods, how he got to Israel, his background, and the quality revolution taking place in Israel. The article about this Mediterranean food and wine critic can be found here and the [...]

Rogov’s Reviews: Carmel and Israeli roses

29, May 2009

Share Daniel Rogov, Israel’s premier wine critic, has reviewed several great Israeli wines in recent editions of Ha’aretz. For the hot summertime, rose’s are the perfect wine, even if they have gotten a bad rap. Rogov’s reviews of some great roses are at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086863.html His TNs: Chateau Golan, Royal Reserve, Rose, 2008: Made entirely from [...]

Rogov’s Reviews: Psagot Winery

12, May 2009

Share Psagot Winery is an interesting new winery located just outside of Jerusalem that is available in the United States. Daniel Rogov recently conducted his annual tasting of their wines and this is what he has to say about it:   Located in the northern Jerusalem Mountains, overlooking Wadi Kelt (Nachal Prat), the winery was [...]

Binyamina Winery – On the Way Up

21, Apr 2009

Share While the Israeli wine revolution was started by what’s today a large winery and continued with the work of other large wineries (Tishbi, etc.), it was pushed by the later growth of smaller wineries like Margalit and Castel. As a result, of course, large wineries like Carmel radically restructured and today are making top [...]


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