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Ra’anana Wine Festival

By ⋅ June 26, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The Ra’anana Wine Festival takes place tomorrow (Wednesday June 27) and Thursday June 28 at Lev HaPark (near the pond area). Admission is 55 NIS for Ra’anana residents with valid ID and 60 NIS for non-residents. Participating wineries include: Arza Barkan Segal Teperberg Hacerem Yaffo Or Ganuz Kinur David Lavie Zfat Dror Sasi Gat Shomron [...]

Reflections from the Wine Pond

By ⋅ June 22, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The 2012 Eshchol HaZahav or the Golden Cluster Awards were just held in Tel Aviv at the Dan Panorama Hotel.  It’s the only wine competition that judges only Israeli wines and wines from all price categories.  Yet, wine competitions are a curious phenomenon in the wine industry.  For the public, it’s an opportunity to learn [...]

More Proof That Wine is Good For Your Heart

By ⋅ June 1, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

    When you work at a winery, you soon find out there’s no shortage of people who want your wine for free. Winemakers tend to be generous souls, from my experience, but there’s a limit to how many wine writers, dignitaries and charities you can bestow with samples or bottles for a charity gala and still [...]

Haifa Wine Festival

By ⋅ May 22, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Where: Haifa’s Rappaport Audiotorium’s Gardens on Mt. Carmel When: May 22,23 & 24 6 to 11PM 50 NIS for the public One of the best festivals to attend ..20 plus wineries with some who don’t venture too south and lectures and presentations and releases from the wineries each evening in adjacent private rooms…Andre Suidan is the [...]

Easter Wine Tour

By ⋅ April 10, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

When I moved to California from Massachusetts, I missed the embedded and concentrated layers of culture and history that New England had to offer over the American Southwest. Yet when moving to Israel, those hundreds of years of New England culture were overshadowed by thousands of years of civilizations that can be overwhelming to a [...]

VIP Wine Tasting and Gallery Opening Reception in Ra’anana, Israel

By ⋅ March 28, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Sunday April 1st (No Fooling!!!) 7 PM to 8PM wine tasting and art gallery opening at Brill’s New Judaica Art Gallery Rechov Ahuza 111 50 NIS (FREE with purchase of any wine bottle) featuring the newly kosher wine of the Saslove Winery (at discounted prices for Pesach) 2010 was their first kosher vintage and five red [...]

Some Photos from Israwinexpo

By ⋅ March 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

David Rhodes’s “Favorite, Best or Most Interesting Wines” of the Israwinexpo 2012

By ⋅ February 26, 2012 ⋅ One comment

This is a shortened list from a longer article for those who like lists rather than reading explanations. Some wines I consider the best of the expo, some sentimental favorites and some just intellectually stimulating and worth mentioning as being illustrative of emerging trends. A few special wines were all of the above 2009 Tishbi [...]

IsraWine Expo 2012

By ⋅ February 24, 2012 ⋅ One comment

I was happy to have the opportunity to attend the first (trade-only) day of IsraWine Expo and determined to take full advantage, arrived as early as possible for the opening press conference which included a talk by Adam Montefiore’s on the state of the Israeli wine industry to the approximately 45 visiting foreign journalists, wine [...]

Wine Route of Israel – New, Revised & Updated

By ⋅ February 20, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The third edition of The Wine Route of Israel has been published by Cordinata. The book is the most comprehensive overview of the Israeli wine industry to date. This coffee table book contains over 250 pages in full color, with photographs of wineries, winemakers, vineyards and wines. It will be an excellent gift to the [...]

Israwinexpo 2012

By ⋅ February 17, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Isawinexpo 2012 is coming! This industry wine event occurs only every 2 years at Tel Aviv’s Ganei Taharucha convention center. It will take place February 21-23 (February 21 only for members of the trade, 22-23 for the general public). The ISRAWINEXPO exhibition is organized by the Israel Trade Fairs & Convention Center in cooperation with [...]

Terravino 2011

By ⋅ December 19, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

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