Share Psagot Winery is an interesting new winery located just outside of Jerusalem that is available in the United States. Daniel Rogov recently conducted his annual tasting of their wines and this is what he has to say about it: Located in the northern Jerusalem Mountains, overlooking Wadi Kelt (Nachal Prat), the winery was [...]
Share Israeli wine critic Daniel Rogov has been making his annual round of tastings as of late and he recently visited Saslove Winery. Saslove, founded by Canadian immigrant Barry Saslove, is one of those great Israeli boutique wineries that are a secret to those outside of Israel. Here is the original thread and the following [...]
Share (For the thread, go to Daniel Rogov’s wine forum) Daniel Rogov recently visited the Israeli boutique winery of Vitkin. Here are his thoughts and tasting notes for the recent and soon-to-be releases of this Israeli winery. Established by Doron and Sharona Belogolovsky on Moshav Kfar Vitkin on the central Coastal Plain, this winery released [...]
Share (For Daniel Rogov’s original posting, go here) Israeli wine critic Daniel Rogov is making his annual rounds and recently visited the kosher winery, Ella Valley Vineyards. I’ve previously written about the excellent wines from this Jerusalem-area vineyard and my previous visits. Note that the 2008 tastings were made from components, and so when it [...]
Share The latest (June 30) issue of the Wine Spectator has an article about Israeli wine as well as a travel piece on the Galilee, including food and wine. I haven’t yet seen the article yet, but the editor and author, Kim Marcus, also scores numerous Israeli wines. Here are the scores (please correct me [...]
Share Monday night I had the opportunity to taste five truly amazing wines. While most were from California (including Covenant’s second label, the Cabernet Sauvignon Red Sea 2003), there was one unique and special wine from Israel. In fact, it was from a winery that I had never tried before: Psagot. While we didn’t take [...]
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