The following is from wines-israel.com and reprinted with permission. The Jewish Week recently a tasting of kosher wines from around the world. Eight judges tasted 280 wines. The results are published in the 2nd Annual Jewish Week Kosher Wine Guide, which publishes the top 18 wines in various categories. The top Israeli red wines were adjudged to be: 1. Psagot Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 2. Yatir Forest 2007 3. Carmel Kayoumi Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 4. Petit Castel 2007 5. […]

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I plan on posting more over the next week about the launch of Daniel Rogov’s Launch of the Guide to Israeli Wines 2010 and his new Guide to Kosher Wines (Disclosure: I received an invite to the launch party and copy from Toby Press, the publisher). In the meantime, however, here is a video from my mentor Adam Montefiore of Carmel Winery and the ‘Ambassador of Israeli Wines’ for over 20 years and Daniel Rogov.

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As some of my first posts showed, my core interests have always been wine marketing and the business of wine. Whether it’s a post on wine sales in Israel or my second post on Marketing to the Millenials, the topic of business and wine have always been close to my heart. It’s a tough thing to market Israeli wine to the global market – an issue that Adam Montefiore discusses in Wine Business International Magazine. Adam Montefiore authored a post […]

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Sorry for the slow pace of this blog, which will continue over the next two weeks, as I have guests from the wine trade (but lacking exposure in Israeli wine) in over the next two weeks. Hopefully, over the next month, I will have some interesting posts of a few northern wineries. However, yesterday, today, and tomorrow are the ISRAWINEXPO 2008, a government sponsored trade show for those interested in importing Israeli wines. In addition, several guests are here – […]

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Israeli Wine By: Natasha Hughes This article first appeared in Decanter In the Bible, Israel is referred to as a land of milk and honey. To the once-nomadic desert tribesmen who settled there a few thousand years ago, it must have seemed a veritable agricultural paradise; a land where all kinds of grain, fruit and vegetables grew abundantly, one where livestock fattened and grew plentiful. This was also a land where vines thrived, and there are many references in the […]

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According to the wine site enobytes.com, HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog is one of the top 100 Google wine blogs. Here are the top 5 blogs: 1        Vinography 2        Wine Library TV 3        Dr Vino 4        The Pour 5        Fermentation Our good friend Richard’s Israeli Wine Direct blog, about his important business of bringing Israeli wine into America, ranks number 18. Only a few spots down (and after a month in which, I admit, I’ve […]

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In honor of Gary Vaynerchuk’s appearance in Wednesday’s New York Times, I’ve compiled my own Top 10 Reasons Why I love Gary V! 10. Gary V reminds me a little of myself. Gary Vaynerchuk turned his father’s Shoppers Discount Liquor into the $60 million a year Wine Library. My father also used to own a liquor store (as did my uncle and grandfather) but it was definitely not a $60 million a year business. 9. Gary V has passion. ‘Nuf […]

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Haven’t watched it yet but Gary Vaynerchuk has the 2003 Yarden Cabernet Sauvignon on the latest Wine Library TV. Now, if only he referred to it as Israeli and not kosher (although it is a great wine – like most of Golan Heights Winery – that happens to be kosher)! Why do you think he didn’t simply describe the Yarden as Israeli? This is a great wine for Hanukkah (which starts tonight) or Christmas. Check it out on my WLTV […]

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David Rhodes is the only guy I’ll call the Israeli wine guy besides myself. He’s definitely one of my favorite Israeli wine guys — and a neighbor to boot. David was just on Gary Vaynerchuk’s Sirius radio, talking about Israeli wine. Listen to David on Gary’s show: Download Now.

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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 to read the article for the whole story and tasting notes but here are the wines tasted and scores: GOLAN HEIGHTS Cabernet Sauvignon Galilee […]

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