Tu B’Av: The Holiday of Love and Wine

Posted on August 13, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | 2 Comments

This weekend is the little-known Jewish holiday of Tu B’Av, the 15th of the Hebrew month of Av. This unique holiday is not one marked by fasting, or extra praying, or lighting candles or other similar rituals. Rather, this day marks love and is celebrated by eating good food and drinking summer wine. Whether Jewish [...]

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Carmel Winery’s Quality Revolution Continues

Posted on August 5, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | 4 Comments

Carmel’s quality revolution is not over. In the past few years, Carmel Winery has made serious changes in management, viticulture, and structure. They created new excellent top level wines including the Appellation series which provides great value-for-money and the Single Vineyard smash hits. Slowly and unnoticed by us “wine snobs” their supermarket Selected and Private [...]

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Champagne method wine from Israel: Gamla Brut

Posted on July 10, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | Leave a Comment

Israel boasts a new champagne (traditional) method sparkling wine from the Golan Heights Winery - the Gamla Brut.
This sparkling Israeli wine has just appeared on the shelves - I first saw it on Sunday in Tel Aviv. The Gamla Brut N.V. is half pinot noir and half chardonnay - a common feature of champagnes from [...]

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Carmel Brut, Private Collection - A New Sparkling Wine from Carmel

Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | 1 Comment

Carmel Winery has made a revolution in sparkling wine and added a new value-priced quality offering to the small Israeli sparkling wine market. They are abolishing the President’s Wine, a cheap (but refreshing) sparkler, and are introducing a new, higher quality offering.
The Carmel Private Collection Brut, made using the charmat method (like many sparkling wines [...]

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Israeli sparkling wines for the New Year 2008 (Sparkling wines for Sylvester)

Posted on December 28, 2007 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov, Wineries | Leave a Comment

It’s a few days until New Years – or Sylvester as we call it in Israel – and with that comes bubbly. Yup, sparkling wine (or champagne, but champagne really only refers to sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France).
Well, Israel isn’t known for being a world-class leader in this category but there are [...]

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