11, Nov 2007 Share Tweet As a follow up to Friday’s post about how Shabbat provides an excellent opportunity for all – Jew, non Jew, religious, non-religious – to experience new wines and explore one’s personal tastes, I mentioned that I was serving the Galil Mountain 2006 Merlot. Just to prove my point more about how Shabbat is […] In: Kosher Tags: Galil Mountain, Gamla, holidays, Shabbat
One of the secrets frequent wine drinkers indulge in is bringing their own wine along when they eat out at a favorite or new restaurant. It’s called paying a corkage fee referring to the fact the waiter is merely uncorking the wine for you, decanting if necessary and providing the guests with wine glasses. This is a very common practice in many Western countries but it’s a much rarer practice in Israel but growing in popularity as the wine industry […]
13, Nov 2007 Share Tweet 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 again, there are plenty of non-certified Israeli wines […]
13, Nov 2007 Share Tweet 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 again, there are plenty of non-certified Israeli wines […]
13, Nov 2007 Share Tweet 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 again, there are plenty of non-certified Israeli wines […]
13 Nov 2007 by 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 again, there are plenty of non-certified Israeli wines that have come out within the past two decades) or Concord sweet, sickly wines like Manishewitz. Yet, Concord was used in kosher wine […]
13, Nov 2007 Share Tweet 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 again, there are plenty of non-certified Israeli wines […]
13, Nov 2007 Share Tweet 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 again, there are plenty of non-certified Israeli wines […]
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 Director of Operations at his father’s megaliquor store, Wine Library, in New Jersey about an article about Wine 2.0 in CNN. Wine 2.0 – the use of the Internet to sell wine – is […]
20, Nov 2007 Share Tweet 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 Director of Operations at his father’s megaliquor […]
