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A Decade of Israeli Wine 2000-2009

30, Dec 2009

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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 in the [...]

Kosher wine from Israel for Purim

5, Mar 2009

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Kosher wine for Purim
Alcohol is an important component of many people’s Purim holiday celebration. For those looking to add kosher wine to their Purim baskets and Purim feast, here are some suggestions. Given the current state of the economy, I’ve only listed low priced wines.

Under 50 NIS
For great value wines, many of the wines from [...]

Carmel 100: Carmel Winery relaunches ‘Best Brandy Worldwide’

29, Sep 2008

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Carmel Winery has just announced the launch of its award-winning premium brandy, the Carmel 100. This quality Israeli brandy was aged for at least eight years in oak barrels. This new release of the Carmel 100 brandy is in honor of the hundredth anniversary of Carmel Winery.
Brandy Carmel 100 is made with Columbard (70%) with [...]

Carmel, Avidan, Pelter, Chateau Golan, Savion: Daniel Rogov’s Reviews

7, Aug 2008

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Israeli wine critic Daniel Rogov’s latest wine review in Ha’aretz continues the last post of Carmel’s rise in quality and includes numerous great Israeli wines. Read the full review here or below:

Wine and Spirits / Critics’ darling
By Daniel Rogov
In recent months Israeli wines have become the darling of critics in the United States. Several months [...]

Carmel Winery’s Quality Revolution Continues

5, Aug 2008

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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 [...]

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

12, Jun 2008

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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 [...]

Carmel: From Sacramental to Single Vineyard

21, May 2008

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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 [...]

Carmel’s Quality Revolution

19, May 2008

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One of the most important stories of the Israeli wine world is the quality revolution that took place (and is continuing with continuing improvements) at Carmel Wineries.
Carmel Wineries, founded in 1882, is one of Israel’s oldest producers of wine (and, I suspect, oldest producer of table wines) and certainly the most famous Israeli wine. In [...]

More photos from Carmel

30, Apr 2008

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Carmel Winery – The History of Israeli Wine

30, Apr 2008

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Carmel Mizrahi Winery was founded in 1882 and is, 126 years later, Israel’s largest and most famous winery. While not the first winery in Israel, it is the most well known and for many years (and even today) often serves as the face for Israeli wine. This can be good or bad, depending on which [...]


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