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Israeli Wines in the Wine Advocate

3, Mar 2010

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The Wine Advocate, owned by Robert Parker, the world’s most famous & influential wine critic, has again tasted wines from Israel.
This is encouraging because Israel now seems to appear at least once a year in a formal tasting. It was not so long ago that Israel was off the Parker radar. However today that has [...]

Israel’s World Class Dessert Wines

30, Oct 2009

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Unfortunately most Israelis associate sweet wines with Kiddush and religious ritual, and therefore the very word ‘sweet’ has connotations of a cheap and nasty wine. Something which is to be avoided, at all costs. However some of the world’s most sought after and expensive wines are sweet, pudding wines. An Eiswein or Trockenbeerenauslese from Germany, [...]

Mark Squires Tastes Israeli Wine in the Wine Advocate

2, Sep 2009

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Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate has a new tasting of Israeli boutique and garagiste wineries by Mark Squires (who authored the first two reviews of Israeli wine in the Wine Advocate).
While Squires’s first review was widely received with several wineries receiving scores of 90 or above and the rest receiving scores in the 80s, today’s tasting [...]

Reuters: Israeli wine flows onto international shelves

18, Aug 2009

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Israeli wine flows onto international shelves
The following is from the Reuters wire service. Read the full article at Reuters
JERUSALEM (Reuters Life!) – Israeli wine has long stirred up associations with the syrupy libations of religious rituals, but modern techniques imported from top winemaking nations are now helping it find space on shelves from Paris to [...]

Scoop: Wine Advocate re-tastes Israeli wine

24, Dec 2008

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SCOOP: The latest issue of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate has a new tasting of Israeli wines by Mark Squires. This is important because it means that the Wine Advocate is paying continued attention to Israeli wine. As I said, the secret’s out. Israeli wine is good and not just for kosher-keepers.
Here are Squire’s scores from [...]

Why Israeli Wine is World Class (My Philosophy on What is Good Wine)

18, Aug 2008

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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 [...]

Wine Advocate tastes Israeli wines … again

10, Jul 2008

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Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate has a new Internet-only feature on Israeli wine. This article by Mark Squires has reviews, tasting notes, and some of the Wine Advocate’s thoughts on Israeli wine.
I will have more on this topic later, once I go through the tasting notes, but if you are a subscriber check it out and [...]

Robert Parker writes about Israeli wines in Business Week

8, Mar 2008

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Robert Parker talks about Israeli wine in his Business Week column, with rankings for Castel, Yatir, Carmel’s Limited Edition. Here is the link.
It’s great to see Israeli wines begin to get the recognition that they deserve. Wine Spectator also recently featured an article about Tulip Winery.

Mark Squires on Israeli wine

8, Feb 2008

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Richard, a nice American blogger who also shows the love to Israeli wine, interviewed Mark Squires on his blog Israel Wine Direct (the only other Israeli wine blog, but missing out on a ton since Richard’s in America – but he’s scheduled to bring great Israeli wine to American direct consumers).
The interview is worth paying [...]

Wine Advocate Scores

24, Dec 2007

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Below are the scores for the Wine Advocate article on Israeli wines by Mark Squires. Robert Parker also sat in on the tastings, and tasted himself.
IsraelWines.co.il also has the scores, in descending order.
You can see the notes of the WA’s scoring system here
However, note that tasting notes are very important. I saw excerpts of the [...]


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