Tu B’Av: The Holiday of Love and Wine
Posted on August 13, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Read More..>>Champagne method wine from Israel: Gamla Brut
Posted on July 10, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Carmel Brut, Private Collection - A New Sparkling Wine from Carmel
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Two exciting new Israeli wines
Posted on March 26, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Champagne for the New Year (Sparkling wine for Sylvester) Take II
Posted on December 31, 2007 - Filed Under Rogov | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Israeli sparkling wines for the New Year 2008 (Sparkling wines for Sylvester)
Posted on December 28, 2007 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Rogov, Wineries | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
