Posts Tagged ‘Golan Heights Winery’
Adam Montefiore: The Ambassador of Israeli Wine
25, Mar 2010Share 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 [...]
Israeli Wines in the Wine Advocate
3, Mar 2010Share The Wine Advocate, owned by Robert Parker, the world’s most famous & influential wine critic, has again tasted wines from Israel. This is encouraging because Israel now seems to appear at least once a year in a formal tasting. It was not so long ago that Israel was off the Parker radar. However today [...]
Israwinexpo 2010 Tel Aviv
19, Jan 2010Share Israwinexpo is coming back! This biennial professional Israeli wine event first occurred in 2006, then again in 2008, and is now coming back to Tel Aviv. Israwinexpo, along with Sommelier, are the two top wine events in Israel. Open to the public only on February 10-11, 2010 from 16:00-22:00 (4PM-10PM), the Israeli wine tasting [...]
- In: Wine industry
- Tags: Adir, Alexander, Amphorae, Avidan, Bashan, Ben Haim, Binyamina, Carmel, Chillag, Dalton, Domaine Ventura, event, Galil Mountain, Golan Heights Winery, Gvaot, israeli wine event, Israwinexpo, Recanati, Saslove, Sea Horse, Shilo, Tel Aviv, Teperberg, Teperberg 1870, Tishbi, Tulip, Tzion, Tzora, Villa Willhemla, Vitkin, Yatir
Sparkling Wine (Champagne) for the New Year
31, Dec 2009Share In honor of New Year’s Eve, this is a repost of a post from earlier this month about Israeli sparkling wine. I’m drinking the Carmel Selected Sparkling Wine for New Years. What about you? Sparkling wine is the wine of fashion and celebration. Whether on New Year’s Eve or at a wedding, it remains [...]
- In: Wine industry
- Tags: Carmel, champagne, Golan Heights Winery, Pelter, sparkling wine
Israel’s World Class Dessert Wines
30, Oct 2009Share Unfortunately most Israelis associate sweet wines with Kiddush and religious ritual, and therefore the very word ‘sweet’ has connotations of a cheap and nasty wine. Something which is to be avoided, at all costs. However some of the world’s most sought after and expensive wines are sweet, pudding wines. An Eiswein or Trockenbeerenauslese from [...]
- In: Wine 101|Wines
- Tags: Carmel, dessert wine, Golan Heights Winery, heights wine, Robert Parker
10 Best Wineries in Israel
20, Oct 2009Share Daniel Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wine is coming out in a few weeks for 2010 (How did that happen?). He’s been publishing this annual guide to Israeli wine for the past several years and it keeps on getting bigger and bigger. One of the most interesting sections of Daniel Rogov’s Israeli wine tasting guide [...]
Golan Moscato 2009
19, Oct 2009Share It’s almost the end of 2009 and so the young 2009 vintage wines are soon coming out. While it’s traditional for the boujealais Gamay to be the first of the harvest, young white wines are sometimes also released aroudn the same time. Golan Moscato 2009 is a white dessert wine, young, fresh, and light [...]
- In: Wineries|Wines
- Tags: dessert wine, Golan Heights Winery, Moscato
Wine Spectator Reviews Kosher Wine for Rosh Hashanah
10, Sep 2009Share The Wine Spectator has its latest review of kosher, Israeli wines for the High Holidays. Wines tasted include: GOLAN HEIGHTS WINERY Gewürztraminer Galilee Yarden Heights Wine 2006 Score: 90 | $23 / 375ml BINYAMINA The Cave Galilee 2005 Score: 89 | $65 CARMEI ZVI-SEGAL BROS. Cabernet Sauvignon Galilee Heights Segal’s Special Reserve 2004 Score: [...]
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