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Questions for anyone who happened to stop by this blog: When did you start learning about/appreciating wine? Why do you like wine? How do you learn about wine? Books? Which ones? Courses? Where? Winery tours? What countries/regions?…
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One of the topics of this blog will be the young wine drinker, the late Gen X and the Millenial (1975-legal drinking age). I just received an e-mail from Gary Vaynerchuk, the brash, pedestrian, young host of Wine Library TV, a video podcast about wine, and…
Posted at 18:27h in Kosher, Wine 101 by 0 Comments
I don’t know whether to be happy that many people have already discovered this blog after only a week of existence or upset that many – by no means all – discovered this blog because they were looking for information on kosher wine. This will be…
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The World Cup is here. No, not of soccer, but rather of wine. The Grape Thinking blog “A better way to think about wine” and Taste Vine, a new Web 2.0 app that creates “taste semantic recommendations”, have launched the World Cup of Wine. In their own…
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Israel’s Galilee offers world’s first pomegranate wine By Zev Stub September 10, 2006 If you’ve been to the supermarket lately, you’ve probably noticed that the hottest trend in the food industry is pomegranate products. Several years before the trend got started, a family in Israel’s Upper…
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From ynetnews.com: Adam Montefiore Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik Israeli world-class wines – it’s now official! For the first time ever, two Israeli wineries, Domaine du Castel and Yarden (Golan Heights Winery), have been awarded the coveted four star awards Adam Montefiore Hugh Johnson’s Pocket…
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If the words ‘Israel’ and ‘wine’ only make you think of the sweet sticky sacramental traditional syrup, think again. Israeli wineries today produce sparkling products that are winning prizes and fans worldwide. Last month, two wineries took the gold medal at Challenge International…
Posted at 19:20h in Kosher, Wine industry by 1 Comment
Israeli wine has a bad rap. Too many people associate it with either cooked wine (due to the old way that mevushal –a kosher stringency – was done, but wine that is not mevushal is equally kosher and, as I will repeat over and over…
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As a follow up to my post below about beaujolais, I have some information on the Carmel Young Selected 2007. These extremely young wines, as in past years, will be a Muscato and a Carignon. There will also be several other releases of 2007 wines…
One of the most fun wine events is fast upon us – the release of the 2007 Beaujolais Nouveau. According to that all-knowing source Wikipedia: Beaujolais nouveau is a red wine made from Gamay grapes produced in the Beaujolais region of France. It is the most…
Posted at 19:05h in Reviews, Wine 101 by 0 Comments
I’m not the expert in wine and food pairings but I know a few basics. Like a Moscat/Moscato is a great wine for a sweet dessert like cake or ice cream, but not the appropriate wine for a hearty meal. Yet, as I mentioned in…
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From israelplug: In 1988, Eli-Gilbert Ben-Zaken decided to prove that Israeli wines could be up to European standard. He borrowed millions of dollars and started the Domaine du Castel Winery on a hillside near Jerusalem. The entrepreneur learned mostly from going to wine shows, tasting wines, reading…
