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First Performance of Carmel Symphony To Celebrate 120 Years

By ⋅ May 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Carmel Winery is celebrating its 120th year of harvests. The first harvest to be received by Rishon Le Zion Wine Cellars was on August 3rd 1890. Soon the 2010 harvest will begin, which will be the 120th by Israel’s most historic winery. To celebrate this, a special Symphony has been composed by Gil Shohat. The [...]

Adam Montefiore in the Huffington Post

By ⋅ April 29, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve previously written about Adam Montefiore, currently a manager at Carmel Winery. The dean of Israeli wine marketing (a topic close to my heart) and someone I’m privileged to have met and call an associate and friend, Montefiore is also known by his moniker ‘The Ambassador of Israeli Wine’ – a title well deserved. As one of [...]

Adam Montefiore: The Ambassador of Israeli Wine

By ⋅ March 25, 2010 ⋅ One comment

In 1884, a year before his death, Sir Moses Montefiore, then 100 years old, made his last donation to the new village of Rishon le Zion, birth place of the modern Israel wine industry. Over 100 years later a young Englishman with blue eyes made aliyah (immigrated) to Israel. The great, great grandson of Moses Montefiore’s [...]

A Decade of Israeli Wine 2000-2009

By ⋅ December 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Kosher wine from Israel for Purim

By ⋅ March 5, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

Carmel 100: Carmel Winery relaunches ‘Best Brandy Worldwide’

By ⋅ September 29, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

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%) [...]

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

By ⋅ August 7, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

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 [...]

Carmel Winery’s Quality Revolution Continues

By ⋅ August 5, 2008 ⋅ 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 [...]

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

By ⋅ June 12, 2008 ⋅ One 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 [...]

Carmel: From Sacramental to Single Vineyard

By ⋅ May 21, 2008 ⋅ Post 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 [...]

Carmel’s Quality Revolution

By ⋅ May 19, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

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. [...]

More photos from Carmel

By ⋅ April 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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