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Passover Wine & Drinks Roundup

By ⋅ April 6, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I’ve posted my Passover wine recommendations here and here (and, in an update, I believe that I will be drinking the 2007 Teperberg Silver Sangiovese and the 2007 Tzuba Cabernet Sauvignon for the Passover seder, 2007 Teperberg Terra Malbec, and 2007 Galil Mountain Barbera for the Sabbath and holiday meals). What is the rest of [...]

Passover Kosher Wine Recommendations

By ⋅ March 31, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Jewish holidays are full of wine. On Shabbat, evening and morning, Jews say the kiddush (sanctification) blessing over wine. On Jewish holidays, we also say the blessings over wine. However, on one holiday, it really is all about wine — on Passover, in addition to the holiday meals during the day and the last day [...]

Passover – The Holiday of Wine

By ⋅ March 26, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ll post my updated comments (including some notes about Jewish law) for this year with my Passover wine recommendations later in the week. In the meantime, check out my recommendation last year and my great wine haggadah. America may have its Maxwell House haggadah, a great marketing piece to remind American Jews that coffee is [...]

Kosher wine from Israel for Purim

By ⋅ March 5, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Kosher wine for Purim Alcohol is an important component of many people’s Purim holiday celebration. For those looking to add kosher wine to their Purim baskets and Purim feast, here are some suggestions. Given the current state of the economy, I’ve only listed low priced wines. Under 50 NIS For great value wines, many of [...]

Kosher and Proud of It

By ⋅ January 6, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

(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 [...]

Israeli wine doesn’t suck: Bloomberg

By ⋅ July 23, 2008 ⋅ One 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 [...]

Kosher is still not a country

By ⋅ July 7, 2008 ⋅ Post 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 [...]

The kosher conundrum + not all Israeli wines are kosher, not all kosher wines are Israeli

By ⋅ March 21, 2008 ⋅ 3 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 [...]

Teperberg 1870: An underrated Israeli wine

By ⋅ January 22, 2008 ⋅ Post 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 [...]

Top 10 Kosher Wines for 2007

By ⋅ January 15, 2008 ⋅ Post 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. [...]

Israeli is not a synonym for kosher

By ⋅ November 19, 2007 ⋅ Post 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 [...]

Shattering the Israeli wine idols

By ⋅ November 13, 2007 ⋅ One 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 [...]

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