Interview with Adam Montefiore: The Israeli Wine Route
Posted on October 13, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Video | Leave a Comment
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World Wine Report ranks Israeli wines
Posted on October 10, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment
Tom Stevenson’s 2009 World Wine Report has just been released in the UK (and is available at amazon.co.uk) and will be available in the United States at the end of the month.
In addition to ranking wines from around the world, it has a great section about Israel written by Daniel Rogov and Tom Stevenson’s choices [...]
Carmel 100: Carmel Winery relaunches ‘Best Brandy Worldwide’
Posted on September 29, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Great Kosher Wine for Rosh Hashana (and year round)
Posted on September 21, 2008 - Filed Under Kosher and Jewish | 2 Comments
The Jewish holidays are a great time to find lots of Israeli wine – even if you aren’t Jewish. Rosh Hashana and Sukkot, two great feasting holidays, are coming up soon (Rosh Hashana begins this year on the night of September 29 and lasts two days) and this is a great chance to buy kosher [...]
Read More..>>Why Israeli Wine is World Class (My Philosophy on What is Good Wine)
Posted on August 18, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | 4 Comments
Israeli wine is world class. Yes, we’ve heard this recently from the likes of Robert Parker, Mark Squires, Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Spectator, Decanter, and other wine critics and trade publications. But I think they’ve all got it a bit wrong.
Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not necessarily disagreeing with their scores and I’ll take the 93 that [...]
Carmel, Avidan, Pelter, Chateau Golan, Savion: Daniel Rogov’s Reviews
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | 2 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 States. Several months [...]
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 [...]
Read More..>>Israeli wine doesn’t suck: Bloomberg
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | 1 Comment
Bloomberg gets the message that Israeli wine doesn’t suck. I’m a little surprised that the article used the traditional framing of “Israeli wine used to suck, now kosher wine is good” (making the association between bad kosher American wine with great Israeli wine [which wasn't always kosher, even]). This is especially surprising coming from such [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Rogov tastes whites
Posted on June 8, 2008 - Filed Under Rogov, Wineries | 1 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 their origins [...]
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