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Jerusalem Wine Festival 2010

29, Jul 2010

Share My favorite Jerusalem wine event is here! Jerusalem Wine Festival. At the just reopened Israel Museum, this year’s Jerusalem Wine Festival is bound to be a success. Here are the details: Tuesday through Thursday, 3-5 August at the Israel Museum Admission is 60NIS and includes a free tasting glass and unlimited tastings. Check out [...]

Judean Hills, Jerusalem-area Wine in the Wall Street Journal

4, May 2010

Share 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 [...]

Wine of Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern

15, Sep 2009

Share Jerusalem.com has an interview with Dan Vered, owner of the Jerusalem Wine and Art store in the Old City in Jerusalem, which is a new wine shop in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter. While Israel’s “wine revolution” only took place in the last few decades, as we’ve said before, Israel has been making wine for thousands [...]

Photos from the Jerusalem Wine Festival

10, Aug 2009

Share Much better than I could ever take, here are some photos of the Jerusalem Wine Festival held August 2009 at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (These beautiful photographs are courtesy of Jessica Korman, The F Stops Here)

Job Opportunity at Jerusalem Wine Store

4, Aug 2009

Share Tell them that you found the job at HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog The wine store in the Cardo of the Old City in Jerusalem is looking for an experienced saleswoman. The job offered is for eight plus hours a day, five days a week, and five hours every Friday morning. Responsibilities include filling [...]

Washington Post features Israeli wine

10, Jun 2009

Share Israeli wine has finally been covered in my hometown newspaper, The Washington Post. This article in the travel section of the Washington Post, by NPR correspondent Linda Gradstein and fellow Jerusalemite, discusses the wines around Jerusalem. In fact, I think there are more wineries now in the Judean Hills than in Zichron Ya’akov, home [...]

Israeli wine festival in Jerusalem – June 4

26, May 2009

Share As part of the 2009 Israel Festival, the wineries in the Jerusalem area will be holding a one-day festival on the beatiful campus of the Hebrew University, in the botanical gardens (I believe that this is the Givat Ram campus of Hebrew U, not Mt. Scopus). The festival will be Thursday June 4, beginning [...]

A visit to Katlav Winery

18, Dec 2008

Share One of the great things about living in Israel, is that some of the greatest and most surprising wineries are only a short drive away. In America, you have to go to California or Washington State to get America’s best wineries, but in Israel, a great winery is no more than 3 or 4 [...]

Jerusalem of Wine

21, Jul 2008

Share The Jerusalem Wine Festival has come and gone for the year. This wine tasting festival is only a few years old but it has already become a Jerusalem tradition for Israel’s Anglo population and Jerusalemites, thirsty for some culture in the holy city. Last week, I attended the event and came in with mixed [...]

Jerusalem Wine Festival – Today through Thursday

15, Jul 2008

Share Today’s the day! The Jerusalem Wine Festival – a fun way to taste Israeli wine – is here. I plan on being there on Wednesday so check it out. If you attend the event (or any other Israeli wine event) please send me your photos and, even better, your thoughts, remarks, or even a [...]


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