Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines includes Israeli Yarden

Posted on November 24, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry | Leave a Comment

There are millions of wines from around the world. Even the best critics don’t know about most wines. Yet, very few of them are in the top 100. However, according to this year’s Wine Spectator, an Israeli wine has made their list of the best 100 wines.
Along with the best old world French chateaus, new [...]

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Wine Spectator: Kosher wines for the High Holidays

Posted on September 26, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Kosher and Jewish | Leave a Comment

The Wine Spectator’s Kim Marcus has a new article on “kosher wines for the High Holidays” in the latest Wine Spectator (free until October 1).

Not surprisingly, all but one of the wines are from Israel. Whether you are Jewish or not, celebrating the holidays or not, these are great wines to seek out. You have [...]

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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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Israel’s Moment in the Sun: Wine Spectator

Posted on June 18, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | Leave a Comment

Derekh haYayin (Wine Route) has put the June 30 Wine Spectator article on Israeli wine online. It’s here in PDF.
However, if you haven’t already, please buy the magazine. There’s also an article on the Galilee region of Israel in the magazine, which I look forward to reading once I get my copy mailed from America. [...]

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Wine Spectator discusses Israel

Posted on May 26, 2008 - Filed Under Israeli wine industry, Wineries | 1 Comment

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 if there [...]

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Israeli wine on WineSpectator.com

Posted on May 24, 2008 - Filed Under Video, Wineries | Leave a Comment

Wine Spectator has a fascinating little video on Israeli wine (with a Dalton Chardonnay and a Clos De Gat red blend) from editor Kim Marcus. I can’t embed it but it’s currently on the Wine Spectator home page but this is what I think is the permalink to it — check it out!
Here is also [...]

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