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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk tastes three Israeli wines

Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under Video | Leave a Comment

I’ve never had the Segal (I’m scared away from them because of their low-end stuff), but will be looking out for this wine shortly due to Gary V’s review. I strongly enjoy the Yiron myself, and just picked up the Yiron-Syrah last week (a different wine) but yet to open. Carmel still has to get [...]

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