I apologize that I had not posted this earlier, but apparently if you sent e-mail to israelwineblog@gmail.com, I did not receive it. Here is an interesting article on Rimon (which is not from grapes and many critics do not consider it a wine) from the Seattle Times:
Sunday, January 20, 2008 – Page updated at 12:00 AM
BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Tart and sappy rather than unctuous, Rimon’s “Black Label” Pomegranate Dessert Wine pairs well with pie.
From Israel comes a deliciously different wine for dessert
By Paul Gregutt
I have to tell you, I’m not big on fruit wines. I mean, it’s fine with me if your grandmother “puts up” dandelion or thimbleberry or some other oddball fermented beverage that falls under the general rubric of wine. But it’s not really wine, is it?
Real wine, I have long believed, must come from grapes, specifically European (vinifera) cultivars. Made from anything else, it may occasionally be perfectly pleasant. But will it achieve the complexity of fine wine? Not likely.
Allow me to eat those words, while introducing you to the pleasures of — ahem — pomegranate wine.
Rimon winery, in Israel’s Upper Galilee, has just released a truly excellent dessert wine, made from pomegranates. Not, the owners are quick to point out, like the many other pomegranate alcoholic-beverage products on the market. Rimon’s wines (which are kosher-certified, by the way) are produced by crushing the fruit, fermenting it in stainless steel, and then, believe it or not, aging the wine in French oak barrels.
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