Share (The following article first appeared on wines-israel and is reprinted w/ permission To order Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2011 please click here.) The new Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2011 has been published by Mitchell Beazley, London. This is the annual, mini-encyclopedia written by Englishman, Hugh Johnson. It is the world’s largest selling wine [...]
Share Segal Argaman 2007 from Dovev Vineyard in the Upper Galilee, has won the equivalent of a Gold Medal at ‘Les Citadelles du Vins’ Competition held in Bordeaux, France. Argaman is a cross between Carignan and Souzao, a Portuguese variety. Avi Feldstein, winemaker of Segal Wines, produced a single vineyard wine from Argaman grapes grown [...]
Share This was the second year of the Best Value competition, organized by Studio Ben Ami. There were 128 wines in the competition from 28 Israeli wineries. The main category was for wines less than 79 shekels and there were also prizes for wines under 50 shekels. The results were announced at the David InterContinental [...]
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- Tags: Barkan, Ben Haim, Carmel, Gamla, Golan, Mt. Odem, Odem, Recanati, Segal, Tabor, Tulip, Yaffo, Yarden
Share Stephen Brook, who visited Israel for IsraWinExpo 2008, has written an update to Hugh Johnson’s Wine Companion. The Wine Companion is one of the classic books, which is in the library of every wine lover. Over the years Stephen Brook has been a prolific author and his most famous book is his work on [...]
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- Tags: Barkan, Barkat, Binyamina, Carmel, Castel, Chillag, Clos de Gat, Golan Heights, Hevron Heights, Hugh Johnson, Margalit, Recanati, Sea Horse, Segal, stephen brook, Tanya, Tishbi, Tulip, Vitkin, wine companion, Yatir
Share I’ve previously blogged about the Jerusalem Wine Festival but I haven’t yet had a chance to attend the Tel Aviv Wine Festival which is held at the Tel Aviv Eretz Yisrael Museum, near Tel Aviv University. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring my camera and my cell phone had one indicator left, so I didn’t want [...]
Share This article about Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book first appeared on wines-israel.com Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2010 is published already, even though it is only late August 2009. However early or not, it represents good news for Israel! No less than twenty six Israeli wineries have made this prestigious guide book, which is [...]
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- Tags: Agur, Barkan, Carmel, Castel, Chillag, Dalton, Ella Valley, Galil Mountain, Golan Heights Winery, Hugh Johnson, Margalit, Pelter, Recanati, Saslove, Sea Horse, Segal, Tabor, Tulip, Tzora, Vitkin, Yatir
Share 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 [...]
- In: Kosher
- Tags: Barkan, Benyamina, Carmel, Castel, Dalton, Recanati, Rosh Hashana, Segal, Teperberg 1870, Yarden, Yatir
Share 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 [...]
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- Tags: Carmel, Castel, Decanter, Domaine du Castel, Galil Mountain, Golan Heights Winery, Mark Squires, Recanati, Robert Parker, Sea Horse, Segal, Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator, world class, Yatir, Zeev Dunie
Share 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 [...]
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