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)…
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An article about Israeli wine is in this month’s Decanter, the UK’s finest wine magazine. For copyright reasons, I’m not posting it but it can be purchased via Decanter’s website. In addition, there will be an article in next month’s Wine Spectator, expected to hit newsstands…
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Thanks! We’ve hit over 10,000 unique hits in just about 6 months! It’s great to know that there are so many fans of Israeli wine and a market for news about Israeli wine in English. Keep reading, keep linking, and please encourage others to read, link,…
Posted at 16:50h in Wine industry, Wineries by 2 Comments
One of the most important stories of the Israeli wine world is the quality revolution that took place (and is continuing with continuing improvements) at Carmel Wineries. Carmel Wineries, founded in 1882, is one of Israel’s oldest producers of wine (and, I suspect, oldest producer of…
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I want to point out a little-known feature of this blog – the store. Yes, one of the important functions of HaKerem is not merely a list of wine essentials – from books, DVDs, and accessories like stemware and wine fridges – but also the…
Posted at 21:40h in Wine industry, Wineries by 1 Comment
Anyone who knows me knows that one of my passions is wine marketing and especially emerging technologies and wine marketing. Well, not entirely emerging (although I do remember first surfing the web in the 1990s and reading Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat — one…
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Check out this new article by Adam Montefiore on the history of Israel wine since independence. As Israel celebrates Yom Hatzma’ut – Independence Day for the 60th time, I have been given the task to look back and select a wine to cover each decade. This…
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Check out this clip about Israeli wine on CNN International (sorry I can’t embed it, and don’t let the initial talk of the falcons in the UAE confuse you, it just takes about a minute and a half for them to get to Israel). My only…
Posted at 13:04h in Wine 101, Wineries by 0 Comments
Check out the new page I just added on “WINE TASTING” Pay attention to the do’s and don’ts and check out the video at the end! Happy wine tasting! In addition, in response to popular request, I’ve added a table of some of Israel’s more popular wines with…
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Today is Yom Ha’atzmaut — Israel’s 60th Independence Day. What are you drinking on this miraculous and glorious day? Wherever you are in the world today, pick up a bottle of Israeli wine in celebration! …
