Kosher and Proud of It
Posted on January 6, 2009 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
(This originally appeared on Wines Israel)
By: Adam Montefiore
Lets destroy some popular misconceptions: Not all kosher wine is made in Israel and not all Israeli wine is kosher! Nowadays nearly every wine producing country in the world produces kosher wine and in Israel, just to be confusing, many of the newer, smaller wineries make non-kosher [...]
Israeli wine doesn’t suck: Bloomberg
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | 1 Comment
Bloomberg gets the message that Israeli wine doesn’t suck. I’m a little surprised that the article used the traditional framing of “Israeli wine used to suck, now kosher wine is good” (making the association between bad kosher American wine with great Israeli wine [which wasn't always kosher, even]). This is especially surprising coming from such [...]
Read More..>>Kosher is still not a country
Posted on July 7, 2008 - Filed Under Kosher and Jewish, Video | Leave a Comment
Richard Shaffer of Israeli Wine Direct has an absolutely excellent video post about how “kosher is not a country” and how many of the everyday foods that are in your refrigerator, pantry, and throughout your house may be kosher – no matter your religion. Coca Cola, Cheerios, Heinz ketchup, fruits and vegetables and many more [...]
Read More..>>You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to Love Them
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | Leave a Comment
“You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to Love Them” — that’s what New York Times wine writer Eric Asimov says about several great kosher Israeli wines.
The question follows: if I don’t celebrate Passover, does that mean I can skip this column? Sorry, I can’t permit that. Now, please pay attention.
Kosher wines have improved so vastly [...]
The kosher conundrum + not all Israeli wines are kosher, not all kosher wines are Israeli
Posted on March 21, 2008 - Filed Under Kosher and Jewish, Wine Basics | 2 Comments
I have said this before and I will say it again: Israeli doesn’t equal kosher and kosher doesn’t equal Israeli. That is to say a very simple thing – not all Israeli wines are kosher and not all kosher wines are Israeli.
Why am I saying this AGAIN (and will keep on saying it)??? Two simple [...]
Teperberg 1870: An underrated Israeli wine
Posted on January 22, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | Leave a Comment
Few people have heard of Teperberg 1870 wine, and very little of it is available in the United States (although I did see some in Germany last year). Formerely Efrat Winery (but not located in the city of Efrat), Teperberg has been producing wine since 1870, originally from the Old City of Jerusalem and then [...]
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. [...]
Read More..>>Israeli is not a synonym for kosher
Posted on November 19, 2007 - Filed Under Kosher and Jewish, Wine Basics | Leave a Comment
I don’t know whether to be happy that many people have already discovered this blog after only a week of existence or upset that many – by no means all – discovered this blog because they were looking for information on kosher wine.
This will be a constant refrain on this blog:
ISRAELI DOES NOT MEAN KOSHER
At [...]
Shattering the Israeli wine idols
Posted on November 13, 2007 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | Leave a Comment
Israeli wine has a bad rap. Too many people associate it with either cooked wine (due to the old way that mevushal –a kosher stringency – was done, but wine that is not mevushal is equally kosher and, as I will repeat over and over again, there are plenty of non-certified Israeli wines that have [...]
Read More..>>The kosher opportunity
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under Kosher and Jewish | Leave a Comment
For many years kosher and Israeli wine (which were essentially equivalent until the past 1-2 decades, as Israeli wine was all kosher until the boutique revolution of the 1990s) had a justifiably bad name as sweet, sickly drink more suited for cost syrup but was suffered on Shabbat and holidays (especially Passover! To this day [...]
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