Kosher and Proud of It
Posted on January 6, 2009 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
(This originally appeared on Wines Israel)
By: Adam Montefiore
Lets destroy some popular misconceptions: Not all kosher wine is made in Israel and not all Israeli wine is kosher! Nowadays nearly every wine producing country in the world produces kosher wine and in Israel, just to be confusing, many of the newer, smaller wineries make non-kosher [...]
Interview with Adam Montefiore: The Israeli Wine Route
Posted on October 13, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Video | Leave a Comment
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JTA: Israeli wines come of age
Posted on September 14, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | 1 Comment
A bit behind the times, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has the stereotypical “Israeli wines used to suck, now they are good story.” Focusing on Castel, a story I did two years ago. But, perhaps the most important as it’s the Jewish crowd that is most stuck on an image of Israeli wines from 30 or [...]
Read More..>>Israeli wine doesn’t suck: Bloomberg
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | 1 Comment
Bloomberg gets the message that Israeli wine doesn’t suck. I’m a little surprised that the article used the traditional framing of “Israeli wine used to suck, now kosher wine is good” (making the association between bad kosher American wine with great Israeli wine [which wasn't always kosher, even]). This is especially surprising coming from such [...]
Read More..>>Adam Montefiore talks to Israeli Wine Direct
Posted on June 19, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | 1 Comment
My good friend Richard Shaffer of Israeli Wine Direct has recently started an absolutely fascinating series of podcasts with Israeli wine figures.
The first one has just been posted with Adam Montefiore. I’m listening it to it now and, despite knowing a lot about Israeli wine and Israeli wine marketing, I am learning a ton from [...]
Carmel: From Sacramental to Single Vineyard
Posted on May 21, 2008 - Filed Under Wineries | Leave a Comment
I promise that this is the last post about Carmel Winery for a little while, but I promised last month some more information and news about Carmel and this post about Carmel’s quality revolution (which definitely does include the opening up of the Yatir Winery) just doesn’t cut it. But, since the story of Carmel [...]
Read More..>>Canada: Support quality Israeli wine
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | Leave a Comment
Here is an interesting article from the Canadian Jewish Independent on Israeli wine and my favorite part - the business and export side of quality wine. Nice focus on Carmel and Flam, including quotes from the legendary Adam Montefiore of Carmel and also Golan Flam of Flam. Nice to see Israeli wine getting noticed as [...]
Read More..>>ISRAEL21c covers Parker
Posted on January 4, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment
ISRAEL21c has finally covered the Parker story, although I wish it was a bit more detailed (they could have asked me - but OK, to be fair, I didn’t propose it. Among many others, I’m sure, I brought this story to their attention a few weeks ago at dinner, the day after the results came [...]
Read More..>>Ynet: Israeli world class wines, it’s official
Posted on November 15, 2007 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | Leave a Comment
From ynetnews.com:
Adam Montefiore
Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik
Israeli world-class wines – it’s now official!
For the first time ever, two Israeli wineries, Domaine du Castel and Yarden (Golan Heights Winery), have been awarded the coveted four star awards
Adam Montefiore
Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2008 has been published and it contains good [...]
