Posted at 21:42h in Wineries, Wines by Avi 0 Comments I first wrote about Jezreel Valley Winery, one of Israel’s newest wineries founded by high-tech entrepreneur Jacob Ner-David & Yehuda Nahar with Californian Ari Erle as the winemaker. Since writing the article I got my hands on several bottles of the wines at innovine – an event hosted at Google Israel focusing on wine and technology. While at innovine I had the opportunity to taste their Chardonnay, Redblend (a mix […]

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Posted at 20:47h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments I was on my way to Haifa last night (from Ra’anana) with a friend who shall remain nameless (his wife gets upset when I mention his drinking online but many of our mutual friends will guess who he his anyways). And since I’ve been told drinking is legal in Israel in a car (for the passengers at least) and there’s no open container law (although flaunting it might still […]

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    During my four plus years in Israel, I’ve tried to attend the major beer events each year typically held in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. By far the one most suited for writers and insiders… Posted at 12:08h in Events, Food by David Rhodes 0 Comments There’s a saying among winemakers, “it takes a lot of beer to make wine.”  The point being that whether its toiling in the vineyards or moving barrels, pumps and cases of bottles at […]

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Since 2007, there have been annual tastings of Israeli wines by the Wine Advocate, the mouthpiece of Robert Parker, the world’s most influential wine critic. Mark Squires, who is the specialist on Israeli wines in Parker’s wine tasting team, did the tasting as usual. There were 80 wines from 21 different wineries. The highest scores were achieved by Yarden El Rom Cabernet Sauvignon, Yatir Forest and Tzora Or. A score of 90 points or more is a target for Israeli […]

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Posted at 14:30h in Wine industry, Wineries, Wines by 4 Comments Carmel Winery has just announced the launch of its award-winning premium brandy, the Carmel 100. This quality Israeli brandy was aged for at least eight years in oak barrels. This new release of the Carmel 100 brandy is in honor of the hundredth anniversary of Carmel Winery. Brandy Carmel 100 is made with Columbard (70%) with the addition of Chenin Blanc and Emerald Riesling. Most of the brandy (75%) […]

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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 more on the story than on their wines. My most recent article about Tulip focused on their story so lets dive now headfirst into […]

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Posted at 16:25h in Wine industry by Avi 0 Comments Gat Shomron Winery, in Karnei Shomron, was one of the wineries at the Ra’anana Wine Festival and also was at Sommolier. Founded by Avigdor Sharon and Lior Nachum on the settlement of Karnei Shomron, not far from Kfar Saba, in 2003, this small winery released its first wines from that harvest in 2005. Grapes are sourced from the areas of Shomron and the Upper Galilee. Among their wines include two […]

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Posted at 23:18h in Featured, Kosher, Wine industry by 4 Comments Carmel’s quality revolution is not over. In the past few years, Carmel Winery has made serious changes in management, viticulture, and structure. They created new excellent top level wines including the Appellation series which provides great value-for-money and the Single Vineyard smash hits. Slowly and unnoticed by us “wine snobs” their supermarket Selected and Private Collection brands have also significantly improved in quality. With the 2007 Private Collection series, […]

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Posted at 19:25h in Reviews, Wine industry by 0 Comments It’s been an open secret that Wine Advocate (Robert Parker’s wine publication – a fellow Terp! but more importantly, the most famous wine critic) and Parker recently tasted Israel’s 100 best wines, as determined by a small group of critics/professionals. Well, there is a sneak preview on the Parker wine forum. First off, apparently the article will NOT be by Parker (this is a surprise!) but rather Mark Squires. More […]

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Posted at 21:18h in Events, Kosher by Avi 0 Comments For the religiously observant who do not want to attend a wine festival that also has non-certified kosher wine, and a testament to the growing sophistication of even the more observant populations, a rival wine festival that consists of solely kosher wine is now also… Posted at 15:13h in Events, Kosher by Avi 2 Comments The following post was reprinted with permission by wines-israel.com The KFWE 2011 recently took place […]

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