Posts Tagged ‘sparkling wine’
Sparkling Wine (Champagne) for the New Year
31, Dec 2009Share
In honor of New Year’s Eve, this is a repost of a post from earlier this month about Israeli sparkling wine. I’m drinking the Carmel Selected Sparkling Wine for New Years. What about you?
Sparkling wine is the wine of fashion and celebration. Whether on New Year’s Eve or at a wedding, it remains the classic [...]
- In: Wine industry
- Tags: Carmel, champagne, Golan Heights Winery, Pelter, sparkling wine
Israel’s Wines of Celebration
8, Dec 2009Share
Sparkling wine is the wine of fashion and celebration. Whether on New Year’s Eve or at a wedding, it remains the classic wine to make a toast with. It is also symbol of success and happiness. Though it is a style of wine that has taken Israelis time to learn to appreciate, sparkling wines have [...]
Tu B’Av: The Holiday of Love and Wine
13, Aug 2008Share
This weekend is the little-known Jewish holiday of Tu B’Av, the 15th of the Hebrew month of Av. This unique holiday is not one marked by fasting, or extra praying, or lighting candles or other similar rituals. Rather, this day marks love and is celebrated by eating good food and drinking summer wine. Whether Jewish [...]
Champagne method wine from Israel: Gamla Brut
10, Jul 2008Share
Israel boasts a new champagne (traditional) method sparkling wine from the Golan Heights Winery – the Gamla Brut.
This sparkling Israeli wine has just appeared on the shelves – I first saw it on Sunday in Tel Aviv. The Gamla Brut N.V. is half pinot noir and half chardonnay – a common feature of champagnes from [...]
- In: Reviews| Wine industry
- Tags: Brut, champagne, Daniel Rogov, Gamla, Gamla Brut, Golan Heights Winery, Israeli wine, sparkling wine
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Carmel Winery has made a revolution in sparkling wine and added a new value-priced quality offering to the small Israeli sparkling wine market. They are abolishing the President’s Wine, a cheap (but refreshing) sparkler, and are introducing a new, higher quality offering.
The Carmel Private Collection Brut, made using the charmat method (like many sparkling wines [...]
- In: Wine industry| Wineries
- Tags: Brut, Carmel, Carmel Winery, Charmat, new release, Private Collection, sparkling wine
Two exciting new Israeli wines
26, Mar 2008Share
One of the great things about the up-and-coming Israeli wine world is that there are always new surprises and new improvements. Old wineries are dramatically improving and new wineries are releasing revolutionary new wines.
Currently, the only sparkling wines in Israel are méthode champenoise (“traditional method”) from Pelter and the Golan Heights Winery (both a Brut [...]
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- Tags: Avivim, Carmel, champagne, Galil Mountain, sparkling wine, Viognier
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A follow up to the below post. If you still can’t decide what sparkling wine to open tonight, here’s two tasting notes on the bubby from Daniel Rogov’s column in Ha’aretz:
Pelter, Blanc de Blanc Brut, n.v.: Although categorized as non-vintage, this wine was made with Chardonnay grapes entirely from the 2003 vintage. Gentle yeast and [...]
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- Tags: champagne, Golan Heights Winery, New Years, Pelter, sparkling wine, Sylvester
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It’s a few days until New Years – or Sylvester as we call it in Israel – and with that comes bubbly. Yup, sparkling wine (or champagne, but champagne really only refers to sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France).
Well, Israel isn’t known for being a world-class leader in this category but there are [...]
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- Tags: blanc de blancs, Brut, Carmel, champagne, Golan Heights Winery, Pelter, sparkling wine, Tishbi
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