17, Mar 2008 Share Chateau Golan is a small, boutique winery on the Golan Heights. While its modeled after a French chateau, its winemaker was trained in Oregon. Unlike the Franco-phile Domaine du Castel, which is truly making French-style wines, it appears that the Chateau Golan’s decision, with its glorious but, I suspect, expensive façade is a decision […] In: Wine industry|Wineries Tags: Chateau Golan, Uri Hetz
Dalton 6, Mar 2008 Share Israel’s Upper Galilee is one of the best areas to make wine. Dalton Winery was founded in 1993 by Mat Haruni and is consistently making high quality wines at reasonable prices. In fact, Daniel Rogov writes that “Dalton has earned a consistently good name for high quality wines, providing excellent value for money.” It […] In: Wine industry|Wineries Tags: Dalton
4, Mar 2008 Share Will have much more to say about Golan Heights Winery (had some excellent wines from them last week), but in the meantime, here’s a picture I took last Monday of an Israeli flag flying over their steel barrels outside of their winery in Katzrin, on the Golan Heights. In: Wine industry Tags: Golan Heights Winery, picture
It’s not my practice to post kosher wine events on this Israeli wine blog, since kosher wine and israeli wine are different — not all kosher wine is Israeli, not all Israeli wine is kosher, but of course many Israeli wine is kosher and the best kosher wine comes from Israel. So, I thought my readers might be interested in two kosher wine events run by Royal, a large kosher wine importer in the United States and probably the importer […]
16, Oct 2010 Share From ISRAEL21c – Go to their website and sign up for the newsletter. By Abigail Klein Leichman October 12, 2010 Carmel Winery’s Kayoumi vineyard in the upper Galilee has received international accolades. The steadily rising profile of Israeli wines reached a global crescendo last month when Carmel Winerygarnered the 2010 Decanter World Wine Awards trophy. The […]
By Abigail Klein Leichman October 12, 2010 Carmel Winery’s Kayoumi vineyard in the upper Galilee has received international accolades. The steadily rising profile of Israeli wines reached a global crescendo last month when Carmel Winerygarnered the 2010 Decanter World Wine Awards trophy. The winery won the award for its red Rhone varietals in the upper price category. “This is the Oscars of wine awards in England, the center of the wine trade worldwide,” Carmel Wine development director Adam Montefiore tells ISRAEL21c. When […]
25, May 2010 Share In the Decanter World Wine Awards, Israeli Syrahs or Shiraz’s were put under the microscope and came out well. It was only a decade ago that there was no Syrah in Israel and it seemed nothing would stand in the way of Cabernet Sauvignon being regarded as the best variety for quality wines in […]
4, May 2010 Share The Wall Street Journal published a profile about wine in the Judean Hills, near Jerusalem, in March 2010. Young Vineyards, Biblical Pedigrees The Judean Hills have become an Israeli wine region to reckon with; memories of the Second Holy Temple Tzora Vineyards The vineyard of kibbutz-based Tzora. Winemaker Yaakov Berg has a recycled winery […] In: Kosher|Wine industry|Wineries|Wines Tags: Agur, Carmel, Castel, Clos de Gat, Ella Valley, Flam, Jerusalem, Judean Hills, Pelter, Tzora, Wall Street Journal, […]
21, May 2010 Share Carmel Winery is celebrating its 120th year of harvests. The first harvest to be received by Rishon Le Zion Wine Cellars was on August 3rd 1890. Soon the 2010 harvest will begin, which will be the 120th by Israel’s most historic winery. To celebrate this, a special Symphony has been composed by Gil Shohat. […] In: Events Tags: Carmel Winery, Events
