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Israwinexpo 2010 Tel Aviv

19, Jan 2010

Share Israwinexpo is coming back! This biennial professional Israeli wine event first occurred in 2006, then again in 2008, and is now coming back to Tel Aviv. Israwinexpo, along with Sommelier, are the two top wine events in Israel. Open to the public only on February 10-11, 2010 from 16:00-22:00 (4PM-10PM), the Israeli wine tasting [...]

Kosher Wine Events in California and New York

14, Jan 2010

Share It’s not my practice to post kosher wine events on this Israeli wine blog, since kosher wine and israeli wine are different — not all kosher wine is Israeli, not all Israeli wine is kosher, but of course many Israeli wine is kosher and the best kosher wine comes from Israel. So, I thought [...]

A Decade of Israeli Wine 2000-2009

30, Dec 2009

Share 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 [...]

Hugh Johnson’s Wine Companion Features Israeli Wine

28, Dec 2009

Share Stephen Brook, who visited Israel for IsraWinExpo 2008, has written an update to Hugh Johnson’s Wine Companion. The Wine Companion is one of the classic books, which is in the library of every wine lover. Over the years Stephen Brook has been a prolific author and his most famous book is his work on [...]

Sommelier 2009 – Israel’s Professional Wine Event

4, Dec 2009

Share Every year a new wine festival opens in Israel, from the southern tips of Eilat to the northern tips of the Golan Heights. But it is no exaggeration to say that Israel’s most important wine festival is Tel Aviv’s Sommelier. This giant Israeli wine festival has now been held for several years, with wines from [...]

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 [...]

Gary Vaynerchuk does a kosher and Israeli wine tasting

13, Apr 2009

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French food, Israeli wine

25, Mar 2009

Share French food and Israeli wine are not a common combination. After all, when people think Israeli wine they often (wrongly) associate it only with kosher food – thus barring wine and food combinations like mahi in a shrimp sauce with Barkan’s chardonnay. Yet, one French restaurant — TriBeCa’s Capsouto Frères is making just such [...]

Binyamina’s Baby: Binyamina ‘B’ 2008

27, Nov 2008

Share Baby Binyamina is the first release of the 2008 vintage from Binyamina Winery. A light and fruity wine, it was released one minute after midnight on November 20. Like Beaujolais wine, the Binyamina B underwent carbonic maceration. This means that this young wine is meant for immediate drinking and not long-term storage. Unlike Beaujolais [...]

Exclusive: Israeli supermarket chain in negotiations to buy Binyamina Winery

27, Aug 2008

Share Binyamina Winery is for sale! The Israeli discount supermarket chain Chetzi Chinam is currently in negotiations to buy Israel’s fifth largest winery, Binyamina, according to the Israeli Hebrew press. This site is the first place to report this story in ENGLISH. According to the Israeli financial newspaper, Globes, the negotiation between the heads of [...]


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