Posted at 20:05h in Kosher, Wines by Avi 0 Comments The Jerusalem Post has published an edited version of my article Wine Recommendations for Rosh Hashana. Read the article in the Jerusalem Post. Below is an excerpt from the article: What’s good in Israel? Israeli wine! Wine recommendations for Rosh Hashanah By Avi Hein, Editor-in-Chief: HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog It’s not a Jewish holiday without wine. While the traditional Rosh Hashanah greeting is for a sweet new year, there’s […]

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The 3rd Annual Ra’anana Wine Festival is this week, Wednesday & Thursday at the scenic Park Ra’anana adjacent to the tranquil pond on the western end of the park.The Festivino group is hosting this year. Last year, the event attracted about 1,500 guests over two nights. This year the festival is taking a twist and featuring ALL KOSHER WINE & FOOD this year. This year to pay respect to the people of Ra’anana’s preferences this event will ONLY feature KOSHER […]

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Posted at 19:42h in Events, Wine industry by 0 Comments The World Cup is here. No, not of soccer, but rather of wine. The Grape Thinking blog “A better way to think about wine” and Taste Vine, a new Web 2.0 app that creates “taste semantic recommendations”, have launched the World Cup of Wine. In their own words: WCOW is a competition that allows you to submit a wine from any country to be reviewed and promoted, based on popularity, […]

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The history of the Israeli wine industry is an illustrious story, beginning with the Bible and continuing today. But, the modern Israeli wine industry owes tremendous debt to the Montefiore family. Sir Moses Montefiore was the first to urge the Jews in Israel to work the land and plant vines. He made tremendous contributions to Israeli agriculture. Descendents of his business partner’s family, the Rothschilds, founded Carmel Winery. Moses Montefiore was a lover of wine, and when he visited Israel, […]

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Posted at 16:26h in Wine industry by Avi 1 Comment The following is from Wines Israel The Israel wine industry was represented for the first time at The Israel Conference held at the Luxe hotel in Los Angeles. Israel Ivzan, chairman of SCV des Grandes Caves and CEO of Carmel Winery was invited to be on one of the panels. The conference is an annual feature in the calendar to expand opportunities between Israel and California. It includes a full […]

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Posted at 12:05h in Wine industry by 5 Comments Ha’aretz’s Family Affair section in the weekend paper profiled Roy Yitzhaki, owner of Tulip Winery, last month. Yitzhaki, 30, started the winery while still in college (in his mid-20s), and also runs a marketing company with Saslove in Tel Aviv. Very interesting to see a true entrepreneur. Tulip, whose first release was only in 2004, is a top winery in Israel. By Avner Avrahami and Reli Avrahami July heat: From the […]

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Posted at 09:23h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments Here’s what we know what’s coming up in May 2013 for wine events and festivals in Israel May 2nd Thursday 09:00-18:00 4th Annual Israeli Wine Convention & Festival in Rosh Pina Stop by the 4th Annual Israeli Wine Convention in Rosh-Pina, at the Cinemateque- a professional convention under the theme this year of: “Growing Vineyards & the Production of Sustainable Wines”. The Israeli Wine Convention (for professional participants), , […]

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Posted at 20:10h in Wine industry by Avi 0 Comments This past June, City Winery held a wine tasting and discussion about Israeli wine. In these videos they discuss the tasting as well as the history of Israeli wine.

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Posted at 13:55h in Wine industry, Wineries by 0 Comments I just found this video on ISRAEL21c‘s beta site. ISRAEL21c is a great place that tells the story of Israel – it’s technology, arts, humanitarian efforts, and culture … including winemaking. Among other stories, I wrote an article on Domaine du Castel for them. Did you know that Sea Horse Winery’s owner/winemaker was in film? I didn’t!

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Posted at 12:27h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments The following article was written by David Rhodes. for Viewpoint Magazine, for the Young Israel movement and National Council of Young Israel Magazine. Download the PDF, Viewpoint-WineMakingIsrael

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