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 [...]
Great Kosher Wine for Rosh Hashana (and year round)
Posted on September 21, 2008 - Filed Under Kosher and Jewish | 2 Comments
The Jewish holidays are a great time to find lots of Israeli wine – even if you aren’t Jewish. Rosh Hashana and Sukkot, two great feasting holidays, are coming up soon (Rosh Hashana begins this year on the night of September 29 and lasts two days) and this is a great chance to buy kosher [...]
Read More..>>Rogov Reviews: Recanati, Yatir, Avidan
Posted on September 19, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment
From Ha’aretz, Daniel Rogov reviews the Israeli wines from Recanati, Yatir and Avidan.
Wine and Spirits / Notable from Recanati
By Daniel Rogov
From its inception in 2000 to the present, the Recanati winery has offered a generous selection of wines, many of which have been consistently excellent. Located in the Hefer Valley in the northern part of [...]
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 [...]
Barbera – Italian Wine becomes Israeli
Posted on July 29, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | Leave a Comment
Israeli wine made from the Barbera grape are becoming more and more popular. Several new wineries have been introducing this Mediterranean varietal into their wines. Originally seen only by Dalton and Recanati, Galil Mountain has also recently introduced an Israeli Barbara. Barbera is not known much outside of Italy, but it is one of the [...]
Read More..>>Jerusalem of Wine
Posted on July 21, 2008 - Filed Under Wine Events, Wine Festivals | 1 Comment
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 feelings.
From [...]
SF Chronicle: Israel’s wine industry reveals it’s California roots
Posted on June 24, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wine Events | Leave a Comment
Interesting article about Israeli wine, especially Flam - whose father was the first Israeli to study at the University of California Davis’s winemaking program and was the winemaker at Carmel for decades. In honor of the Jewish Vinter’s event in California last weekend, several Israeli winemakers were there including Golan Flam (of Flam), Assaf Paz [...]
Read More..>>Rogov tastes whites
Posted on June 8, 2008 - Filed Under Rogov, Wineries | 1 Comment
It’s summer time and that means it’s time to break out the white wines — which are great deals too! In this week’s Ha’aretz, Israel’s premier wine critic Daniel Rogov tries a few whites.
By Daniel Rogov
In Israel, as in California, nearly all the locally made white wines are made from grapes that have their origins [...]
Read More..>>Recanati & Galil Mountain: Versatile
Posted on January 25, 2008 - Filed Under Wineries | Leave a Comment
I do apologize that I am posting often about the same wineries – Recanati, Galil Mountain, Golan Heights, Yatir, etc. – and not paying enough attention to Pelter, Vitkin, Chateau Golan, Ella Valley, or some of the 100s of other Israeli wines, but certain wines are just so versatile.
Such as two of my favorite wineries: [...]
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. [...]
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