Yarden Katzrin 2004 virtual tasting

Posted on January 4, 2009 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment

UPDATE: Due to the ongoing security situation in and near the Gaza border, this event was postponed.
Golan Heights Winery is about to release its flagship, age-worthy wine the Yarden Katzrin 2004. The Katzrin, a Bordeaux-style blend, is known to have an aging potention of upwards of a decade and is only released in good years.
The [...]

Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines includes Israeli Yarden

Posted on November 24, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment

There are millions of wines from around the world. Even the best critics don’t know about most wines. Yet, very few of them are in the top 100. However, according to this year’s Wine Spectator, an Israeli wine has made their list of the best 100 wines.
Along with the best old world French chateaus, new [...]

Golan Gamay Noveau 2008

Posted on November 18, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | 1 Comment

Israel’s only Beaujolais-style wine is the Golan Gamay Noveau. The Golan Gamay Noveau is the Golan Heights Winery’s first red wine from the 2008 vintage.
The wine, just like those in the Beaujolais region of France, comes from 100% Gamay grapes, that came from the Tel Fares vineyard on the Golan Heights. The Tel Fares vineyard [...]

Israel’s 2008 Harvest Begins

Posted on November 17, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment

The 2008 harvest has just begun and, here in Israel, a handful of super-young wines have just been released or are about to be released.
The Golan Heights Winery has already released their 2008 Moscato, a light and fizzy wine. This is Daniel Rogov’s tasting note:
Golan Heights Winery, Moscato, Golan, 2008: Oh what a lovely little [...]

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 [...]

Mark Spivak tours the Israeli wine route

Posted on September 8, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment

Mark Spivak, a wine reviewer who has written for the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Media Group, and other Florida and national magazines, and is the host of a wine show on NPR, recently visited Israel. After not visiting Israel for over 15 years, Spivak was in for a shock. His past experience:
To put [...]

Golan Heights Winery Celebrates 25 in Tel Aviv

Posted on September 7, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wine Events | Leave a Comment

Residents of Israel have occasion to celebrate. The revolutionary Golan Heights Winery, which is celebrating 25 years this year, is having a celebration at the Tel Aviv port between September 11-20.

Golan Heights Winery will both pour those Israeli wines that are available at retailers and also open some special vintage wines from their library that [...]

Rogov’s Reviews: Golan Heights Winery - Still at the forefront

Posted on August 20, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | 2 Comments

Golan Heights Winery is perhaps the best known large Israeli winery. They started the Israeli wine revolution and continue to lead the pack in quality. Daniel Rogov’s latest Israeli wine review in Ha’aretz is below.

Wine and Spirits / Still at the forefront: Golan Heights
By Daniel Rogov
Since it released its first wine from the [...]

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 [...]

Israeli wine for Shabbat

Posted on August 1, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment

I will be drinking the 2007 Yarden Gewurztraminer tonight with a Shabbat dinner of sushi. This light wine with a variety of foods and this unique varietal is grown in the Golan Heights’ volcanic soil. The 2007 Yarden Gewurztraminer displays an aromatic mix of characters: juicy litchi, fresh flowers, green apple, orange blossom, persimmon and [...]

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