Posted at 15:32h in Wine industry by 1 Comment Harvesting World Class Grapes in Israel Israeli Grape Harvest Produces One of the World’s Great Wines By RACHEL LEBOWITZ JERUSALEM, Sept. 10, 2008 — Eli Gilbert Ben-Zaken, the founder of Domaine du Castel, one of the world’s most prominent wineries, had a gut feeling that Monday was the perfect…
Posted at 13:16h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments The Tishbi Winery recently released their newest addition to their Single Vineyard series their 2007 Tishbi Single Vineyard Old Vine Carignan. This 100% Carignan is from their 45 year old vineyards in Shefaya from which the Tishbi’s got their Hebrew…
Posted at 13:16h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments The Tishbi Winery recently released their newest addition to their Single Vineyard series their 2007 Tishbi Single Vineyard Old Vine Carignan. This 100% Carignan is from their 45 year old vineyards in Shefaya from which the Tishbi’s got their Hebrew…
Posted at 22:46h in Featured, Wine industry by Avi 0 Comments The fourth edition of the book ‘The Wine Route of Israel’ has just been published. The last edition was published as long ago as nearly four years ago, so the content has been updated to reflect what has happened since then. The new edition has… Posted at 11:07h in Events, Featured, Wineries by Avi 0 Comments The third edition of The Wine Route of Israel has been published by […]
Posted at 11:07h in Events, Featured, Wineries by Avi 0 Comments The third edition of The Wine Route of Israel has been published by Cordinata. The book is the most comprehensive overview of the Israeli wine industry to date. This coffee table book contains over 250 pages in full color, with photographs of wineries, winemakers, vineyards…
Posted at 19:52h in Featured, Wine industry by Avi 0 Comments Israeli wine flows onto international shelves The following is from the Reuters wire service. Read the full article at Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters Life!) – Israeli wine has long stirred up associations with the syrupy libations of religious rituals, but modern techniques imported from top winemaking nations are…
Posted at 09:45h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments Lately, I’ve written about the Tulip Winery, the Kfar Tikvah based winery relying on Galilee & Judean Hills vineyards. It’s inspirational story, which I’ll omit here, can overshadow how good their wines are leaving a writer limited by a word count deciding whether to focus…
Posted at 21:42h in Wineries, Wines by Avi 0 Comments I first wrote about Jezreel Valley Winery, one of Israel’s newest wineries founded by high-tech entrepreneur Jacob Ner-David & Yehuda Nahar with Californian Ari Erle as the winemaker. Since writing the article I got my hands on several bottles of the wines at innovine – an…
Posted at 06:55h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments As I was walking down the street one steamy afternoon in Tel Aviv, I walked by Wines & More at 208 Ben Yehuda (part of Israel’s largest chain of wine shops oddly enough owned by Christian Arabs). I frequently poke into wine shops and restaurants…
Posted at 17:00h in Wineries by 0 Comments I promise that this is the last post about Carmel Winery for a little while, but I promised last month some more information and news about Carmel and this post about Carmel’s quality revolution (which definitely does include the opening up of the Yatir Winery)…
