Posts Tagged ‘Flam

Tweet The following article was written by David Rhodes. for Viewpoint Magazine, for the Young Israel movement and National Council of Young Israel Magazine. Download the PDF, Viewpoint-WineMakingIsrael

Tweet Wine has evolved over the millennium into an important part of celebrations for billions of people all around the world. Yet, for Jews in and outside of Israel it holds special significance. Every week’s Friday night dinner and Saturday lunch, it’s common to go through a bottle or two of wine with family, friends [...]

Tweet The following post was reprinted with permission by wines-israel.com The KFWE 2011 recently took place in Manhattan, NY. This refers to the Kosher Food & Wine Experience which was organized by the Royal Wine Corporation of Bayonne, New Jersey. Royal Wine are owners of Herzog Wine Cellars in California, Kedem Winery in Upstate New [...]

Tweet (This story first appeared on Wines-Israel and is reprinted with permission) There has been a trend in recent years of boutique wineries becoming kosher. Now two more wineries, have decided to make kosher wines from the 2010 harvest. The first is Flam Winery which was the largest Israeli winery producing non kosher wines in [...]

Tweet The Wall Street Journal published a profile about wine in the Judean Hills, near Jerusalem, in March 2010. Young Vineyards, Biblical Pedigrees The Judean Hills have become an Israeli wine region to reckon with; memories of the Second Holy Temple Tzora Vineyards The vineyard of kibbutz-based Tzora. Winemaker Yaakov Berg has a recycled winery [...]

Tweet In the financial paper Calcalist, respected wine critic, Shlomo Papirblat, has named his top ten Israeli wines. They are as follows: 1. Yarden Katzrin 2004, Golan Heights Winery 2. Castel Grand Vin 2007, Domaine du Castel 3. Yatir Forest 2006, Yatir Winery 4. Sycra Merlot 2006, Clos de Gat 5. Carmel Limited Edition 2005, [...]

Tweet 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 [...]

Tweet Who are the top ten wineries in Israel? According to Daniel Rogov they are: Golan Heights Winery (Katzrin, Yarden, Gamla) Margalit Yatir Domaine du Castel Clos de Gat Flam Chateau Golan Carmel (Limited Edition, Single Vineyard, Appellation) Galil Mountain Pelter (This list is from Daniel Rogov’s 2009 Guide to Israeli Wine)

Tweet 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 [...]

Tweet 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!

Tweet 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 [...]

Tweet 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 [...]


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