2011 March 04 | HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog

4, Mar 2011 Share Tweet When I first visited Eli Ben Zaken of Castel, in 2006, he said that he was waiting for the Wine Advocate to start noticing Israeli wines. It seems, his wish has happened. Mark Squires, of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, has just reviewed 11 Israeli wines in the latest issue (#193). All of the […] In: Reviews|Wine industry

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2011 March 14 | HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog

14, Mar 2011 Share Tweet The following post was reprinted with permission by wines-israel.com The KFWE 2011 recently took place in Manhattan, NY. This refers to the Kosher Food & Wine Experience which was organized by the Royal Wine Corporation of Bayonne, New Jersey. Royal Wine are owners of Herzog Wine Cellars in California, Kedem Winery in Upstate […] In: Events|Kosher Tags: Alexnder, Barkan, Binyamina, Carmel, Castel, Flam, Gamla, Netofa, Psagot, Segal, Shilo, Tzuba, Yatir, Zion

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2011 March 12 | HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog

12, Mar 2011 Share Tweet View Israeli Wineries in a larger map Share this:EmailPrintFacebookStumbleUponDigg Wine Suggestions for Purim & Passover… 12, Mar 2011 Share Tweet The holidays of Purim & Passover and the weeks in between are a great time to explore Israeli wines whether at home or by visiting the wineries. Many smaller wineries not typically open to the public open their doors to visitors who might be looking for wines for two of Judaism’s most traditional […]

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Bottom Up or Top Down? How the Israeli wine industry promotes itself | HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog

The Jerusalem Post blogger Levi Shapiro has a new post about my two favorite Israeli wine folk: Daniel Rogov, Israel’s premier wine critic, and Adam Montefiore, Israel’s premier international wine marketer, often referred to (though he humbly laughs at the claim) as “The Ambassador of Israeli Wine.” Not surprisingly, the two most important figures for promoting Israeli wine to an international audience are also olim, immigrants to Israel, from North America and the United Kingdom. As Levi writes: Unlike venture […]

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