Posted at 18:00h in Reviews, Wine industry by 3 Comments 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 France. This Israeli sparkling wine was made in the traditional method of secondary fermentation […]

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Posted at 17:32h in Wine 101 by 0 Comments This weekend, I opened up a bottle of the 2006 Galil Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon. Unusually, Rogov says that it is best starting in 2009. Yet, like most people, I am not going to store this wine until 2009 – as the wine is still good… Posted at 15:04h in Wine 101 by 0 Comments How do you store your wine? Gary visits several cellars on Wine Library TV. Feel free to […]

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Posted at 17:32h in Wine 101 by 0 Comments This weekend, I opened up a bottle of the 2006 Galil Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon. Unusually, Rogov says that it is best starting in 2009. Yet, like most people, I am not going to store this wine until 2009 – as the wine is still good…

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Posted at 19:19h in Wine industry by 0 Comments Robert Parker talks about Israeli wine in his Business Week column, with rankings for Castel, Yatir, Carmel’s Limited Edition. Here is the link. It’s great to see Israeli wines begin to get the recognition that they deserve. Wine Spectator also recently featured an article about Tulip… Posted at 17:10h in Wine industry, Wineries by 1 Comment This isn’t news for anyone who has been following Israeli wine (aka the readers of […]

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Posted at 15:00h in Wine industry by Avi 2 Comments by Amos Ravid Amos Ravid is Wine Education Manager of Carmel Winery. This article first appeared in Wine, Gourmet & Alcohol and Wines Israel. Although Israel has a long history of winemaking, the country does not have its own indigenous grape varieties. The Ottomans, when in…

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The New Israeli Wine Guide has been launched at the new branch of Derech Ha’Yayin in Tel Aviv. The authors, Yair Gath and Gal Zohar, presented their selection of the ‘Best Seventy’ wines in Israel. Guests gathered from every part of the wine business, to receive a card with two QR codes on it. One was to download the Hebrew version, and the other was for the English one. Yair Gath is the wine critic for Israel Hayom and Gal […]

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Posted at 16:07h in Wines by Avi 0 Comments The winners of this year’s Eshkol Hazahav (Golden Cluster), were announced at The Peres Center For Peace in Jaffa. Eshkol HaZahav is Israel’s wine tasting competition, now in its 13th year, organized by Studio Ben-Avi, owned by Avi Ben-Ami. 259 wines were submitted from among 50 wineries. The Gold Medal Trophies, (first place), were awarded to the following wines: SAUVIGNON BLANC Yarden Sauvignon Blanc, Golan Heights Winery 2014 CHARDONNAY Reserve Chardonnay, […]

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Posted at 17:10h in Wine industry by 0 Comments Mark Spivak, a wine reviewer who has written for the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Media Group, and other Florida and national magazines, and is the host of a wine show on NPR, recently visited Israel. After not visiting Israel for over 15 years, Spivak was in for a shock.  His past experience: To put it bluntly, wine here used to suck, and that was a shame because there was […]

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Posted at 10:19h in Wine industry by Avi 0 Comments I regret to inform my readers that Israeli wine critic Daniel Rogov died last night. You can read his last words here. As you may have noticed from the tributes to him over the past month, he had been very ill. I will be posting my tribute to him later today or tomorrow. In the meantime, you can read past articles of him on this site here: http://www.israeli-wine.org/tags/daniel-rogov/

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Posted at 20:16h in Reviews, Wines by Avi 0 Comments The following post was written by Franco Zilliani, an Italian wine writer. He writes and is member of the editorial board of ‘The World of Fine Wine’ (www.finewinemag.com) and blogs in Italian at A Thousand Bubbles, where this post first appeared. It first appeared in English on the lifestyle website Webflakes, where the full article appears. At the end of 2012 I mentioned in this blog that Israel too had been infected […]

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