Passover: The Holiday of Wine
The upcoming holiday of Passover means just one thing: a chance to explore lots of excellent wine. The obligation to drink four cups of wine at the Passover seder, as well as during Shabbat and throughout the holiday is a great opportunity to explore some of Israel’s finest kosher wines.
While kosher wine has a bad name due to associations with the sweet sacramental Concord grape, better found in upstate New York than the chateaus of Europe or the moshavim of Israel, there is no reason to drink the sickly sweet stuff. Others wrongly associate Israeli wine that just happens to be kosher with ad campaigns from decades long past from Carmel touting sweetness and low-quality grapes that are not exactly known to make good table wine.
Yet, over the past decade, a plethora of new wineries (there are now over 200 wineries throughout the country, both kosher and non-kosher) have opened up throughout Israel and many older wineries have completely turned around and are making truly world-class wine that are enjoyed by Jew and non-Jew alike. […]
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