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Gary Vaynerchuk does a kosher and Israeli wine tasting

By ⋅ April 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

French food, Israeli wine

By ⋅ March 25, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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 a [...]

Binyamina’s Baby: Binyamina ‘B’ 2008

By ⋅ November 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 wine, [...]

Exclusive: Israeli supermarket chain in negotiations to buy Binyamina Winery

By ⋅ August 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 Hetzi [...]

Rogov’s Reviews: Sophisticated Benyamina

By ⋅ July 9, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Daniel Rogov has a positive review of the Benyamina Winery in last week’s Ha’aretz. Benyamina is a large winery, often overlooked. It’s great to see that this Israeli winery is constantly improving. Wine and Spirits / Sophisticated Binyamina By Daniel Rogov That Binyamina winery is on the way up is beyond question. With far better [...]

SF Chronicle: Israel’s wine industry reveals it’s California roots

By ⋅ June 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Interesting article about Israeli wine, especially Flam – whose father was the first Israeli to study at the University of California Davis’s winemaking program and was the winemaker at Carmel for decades. In honor of the Jewish Vinter’s event in California last weekend, several Israeli winemakers were there including Golan Flam (of Flam), Assaf Paz [...]

Rogov tastes whites

By ⋅ June 8, 2008 ⋅ One comment

It’s summer time and that means it’s time to break out the white wines — which are great deals too! In this week’s Ha’aretz, Israel’s premier wine critic Daniel Rogov tries a few whites. By Daniel Rogov In Israel, as in California, nearly all the locally made white wines are made from grapes that have [...]

Israel: The Next Napa or Tuscany? Israel seeks to become wine tourism destination

By ⋅ January 18, 2008 ⋅ One comment

According to a report in Globes, Israel’s top financial paper, Israel is now seeking to be the next Tuscany, Bordeaux, Rhone, Napa and Sonoma Valley. That is, Israel too, hopes to become a wine tourism destination. According to Globes: Zichron Yaacov and Binyamina are formulating a plan to create agricultural tourism with the aim of [...]

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