Amphorae WInery | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

Posted at 06:55h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments As I was walking down the street one steamy afternoon in Tel Aviv, I walked by Wines & More at 208 Ben Yehuda (part of Israel’s largest chain of wine shops oddly enough owned by Christian Arabs). I frequently poke into wine shops and restaurants…

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Kfar Tikvah | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

Posted at 09:45h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments Lately, I’ve written about the Tulip Winery, the Kfar Tikvah based winery relying on Galilee & Judean Hills vineyards. It’s inspirational story, which I’ll omit here, can overshadow how good their wines are leaving a writer limited by a word count deciding whether to focus…

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Reuters | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

Posted at 19:52h in Featured, Wine industry by Avi 0 Comments Israeli wine flows onto international shelves The following is from the Reuters wire service. Read the full article at Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters Life!) – Israeli wine has long stirred up associations with the syrupy libations of religious rituals, but modern techniques imported from top winemaking nations are…

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David Bar-Ilan | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

Posted at 09:45h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments Lately, I’ve written about the Tulip Winery, the Kfar Tikvah based winery relying on Galilee & Judean Hills vineyards. It’s inspirational story, which I’ll omit here, can overshadow how good their wines are leaving a writer limited by a word count deciding whether to focus…

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White Franc | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

Posted at 09:45h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments Lately, I’ve written about the Tulip Winery, the Kfar Tikvah based winery relying on Galilee & Judean Hills vineyards. It’s inspirational story, which I’ll omit here, can overshadow how good their wines are leaving a writer limited by a word count deciding whether to focus…

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Wines & More | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

Posted at 06:55h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments As I was walking down the street one steamy afternoon in Tel Aviv, I walked by Wines & More at 208 Ben Yehuda (part of Israel’s largest chain of wine shops oddly enough owned by Christian Arabs). I frequently poke into wine shops and restaurants…

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208 Ben Yehuda | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

Posted at 06:55h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments As I was walking down the street one steamy afternoon in Tel Aviv, I walked by Wines & More at 208 Ben Yehuda (part of Israel’s largest chain of wine shops oddly enough owned by Christian Arabs). I frequently poke into wine shops and restaurants…

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Israeli wineries | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

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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Gil Shatzberg | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

Posted at 21:48h in Events, Wine industry, Wineries by 0 Comments Recanati, a great Israeli wine that tends to be Italian in style, is one of Israel’s top wineries, founded 8 years ago by businessman Leon Recanati. Since the beginning, its winemaker has been the American and UC Davis-trained winemaker Lewis Pasco, a regular on the various…

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The last word on new wine, the first word on Israeli wine culture | HaKerem: Israeli Wine

Posted at 16:40h in Events, Wine 101, Wine industry by 0 Comments I promise, promise, promise that this my last post for 2007 on the Beaujolais Nouveau. However, I just saw an interesting article in Ha’aretz about the Israeli wine culture. While winetastingguy noted that wine consumption in America is on the rise, he pointed out that he wasn’t sure what the numbers were in Israel. Well, according to the article, Israeli wine consumption jumped 20% in 2006. That’s a […]

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