Wannabe Wino tastes Flam Classico
Posted on September 21, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment
Sonadora, a hotshot DC lawyer cum wine aficionado had an interesting wine-food pairing the other day: tacos with Israel’s Flam Classico. Well, the pairing was a flop but, according to Sonadora, the Flam has “the nose that I now really love about a Cabernet Sauvignon.”
The Flam Classico comes from one of Israel’s top boutique [...]
Read More..>>Gary Vaynerchuk & Wine Library TV taste non-kosher Israeli wine
Posted on August 4, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Video | Leave a Comment
These wines are all available for purchase in the United States via Israeli Wine Direct and in Israel at your local high class wine store!
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Boutique non-kosher Israeli wine now in the US
Posted on July 2, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | 2 Comments
I have written previously about Israeli Wine Direct and the important work Richard Shaffer and his team are doing to bring small-quantity Israeli wine into the United States. IWD is making some of Israel’s best, small-production wine available to consumers in America. My only complaint is that it means less for me!
Well, I have just [...]
SF Chronicle: Israel’s wine industry reveals it’s California roots
Posted on June 24, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wine Events | Leave 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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>US wine events
Posted on June 1, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | 1 Comment
Israeli Wine Direct is bringing some great winemakers to the US to introduce their wines to the American market. Definitely worth checking out!
Zeev Smilansky of Meishar will be in Chicago June 8-9 (Sun-Mon).
Golan Flam and several other Israeli winemakers will be at the Jewish Vintners Celebration in Napa Valley from June 20-22. For more information: [...]
Read More..>>Canada: Support quality Israeli wine
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | Leave a Comment
Here is an interesting article from the Canadian Jewish Independent on Israeli wine and my favorite part - the business and export side of quality wine. Nice focus on Carmel and Flam, including quotes from the legendary Adam Montefiore of Carmel and also Golan Flam of Flam. Nice to see Israeli wine getting noticed as [...]
Read More..>>Top 10 Kosher Wines for 2007
Posted on January 15, 2008 - Filed Under Kosher and Jewish | Leave a Comment
Gamliel Kronemer, the New York Jewish Week’s wine writer, has just released his Top 10 kosher wines for 2007. While missing out on many of the great non-certified Israeli wines (Flam, Margalit, Pelter, Clos de Gat, Odem Mountain [going certified starting with the 2007 vintages] and many more), about half the list is Israeli wines. [...]
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