Rogov’s Reviews: Psagot Winery 12, May 2009 Psagot Winery is an interesting new winery located just outside of Jerusalem that is available in the United States. Daniel Rogov recently conducted his annual tasting of their wines and this is what he has to say about it:   Located in the northern Jerusalem Mountains, overlooking Wadi Kelt (Nachal Prat), the winery was founded by Na’ama […] In: Reviews Tags: Daniel Rogov, Psagot, Rogov’s Reviews, tasting notes

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Israeli sparkling wines for the New Year 2008 (Sparkling wines for Sylvester) 28, Dec 2007 It’s a few days until New Years – or Sylvester as we call it in Israel – and with that comes bubbly. Yup, sparkling wine (or champagne, but champagne really only refers to sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France). Well, Israel isn’t known for being a world-class leader in this category but there are […]

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Wine Advocate Scores 24, Dec 2007 Below are the scores for the Wine Advocate article on Israeli wines by Mark Squires. Robert Parker also sat in on the tastings, and tasted himself. IsraelWines.co.il also has the scores, in descending order. You can see the notes of the WA’s scoring system here However, note that tasting notes are very important. I saw excerpts of the […] In: Wine industry Tags: Mark Squires, Robert Parker, Wine Advocate Historic Tasting for Israel 24, […]

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Tel Aviv Wine Festival 2, Nov 2009 I’ve previously blogged about the Jerusalem Wine Festival but I haven’t yet had a chance to attend the Tel Aviv Wine Festival which is held at the Tel Aviv Eretz Yisrael Museum, near Tel Aviv University. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring my camera and my cell phone had one indicator left, so I didn’t want to waste […]

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Wherever Jews have resided, there has always been home based wineries making wine for the Kiddush sanctification of the Sabbath. For the required blessing, grape beverages are necessary. Apart from a regular wine, either raisin wine or even grape juice is also suitable according to Jewish traditions, being regarded by Jewish law with the same reverence as wine. Jewish agricultural laws, with regard to vineyards in the Land of Israel, go back to the Biblical times. The Kosher wine laws […]

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Blogging Petit Sirah 16, Dec 2007 I’m still a newbie to the wine blogging world and so I missed Wine Blogging Wednesday. Apparently, last week’s WBW#40 was for people to blog about Petit Sirah – a varietal in which there are a few good Israeli choices. This is extra unique as Israel doesn’t yet have a ton of varietals (most table […] In: Wine industry| Wineries Tags: Barkan, Petit Sirah

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Wine tasting for the young 12, Dec 2007 Here are some more fun videos on wine tasting. Remember, wine is for everyone. and Gary has some great tips: In: Wine 101 Tags: Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Library TV, wine tasting How to taste wine 12, Dec 2007 Here are two videos on how to taste wine. Not specifically Israeli-wine related but still useful for many. In: Wine 101 Tags: wine tasting

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International wine in Israel 23, Dec 2007 Well, I can’t just drink Israeli wine all the time. This past Thursday, I returned to Jerusalem’s Wine Hall – a relatively new but top wine store in downtown Jerusalem – for a tasting of the California Herzog line of wines. As you may recall, I first went to their Carmel Limited Edition and Single […] In: Events Tags: Jerusalem, Wine Hall

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