Today’s the day! The Jerusalem Wine Festival – a fun way to taste Israeli wine – is here. I plan on being there on Wednesday so check it out. If you attend the event (or any other Israeli wine event) please send me your photos and, even better, your thoughts, remarks, or even a guest post. E-mail any photos or posts to info[at]israeli-wine.org It will take place between 19:00-23:00 (7PM-11PM) in the sculpture garden of the Israel Museum. Participating wineries […]

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Posted on November 19, 2008 – Filed Under Rogov | Leave a Comment Note: I meant to publish this early last week, but for technical reasons, this post never got published. My apologies. By Daniel Rogov As every November, tomorrow dozens of wine stores from Paris to Rio de Janeiro will celebrate the first wines of the 2008 Beaujolais harvest. Beaujolais nouveau, a red wine, is the most popular vin de […] Read More..>> Golan Gamay Noveau 2008 Posted on […]

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Posted on June 25, 2009 Living in Israel and not having been abroad for two years gave me a warped perspective on Israeli wine. Not bad, of course, but I separate the world of Israel and the world of Jewish and kosher wine. In Israel, you can go in the finest wine shops and see a bottle of the now-kosher Yarden HeightsWine, Domaine du Castel ‘C’, and Tzora Blanc next to to the not-kosher Pelter, Clos du Gat, and Tulip […]

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Posted on March 21, 2008 I have said this before and I will say it again: Israeli doesn’t equal kosher and kosher doesn’t equal Israeli. That is to say a very simple thing – not all Israeli wines are kosher and not all kosher wines are Israeli.  Why am I saying this AGAIN (and will keep on saying it)??? Two simple reasons:  This clearly isn’t known for many of my readers. For example, just the other day several visitors found […]

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Posted on April 29, 2009 Wine tasting is an important part of wine appreciating. I’ve long had a section on wine tasting. Now, the aptly named Wine Tasting Guy, a fellow passionate lover of Israeli wine, has a few videos about wine tasting and a taste of a recent release from Israel’s Dalton Winery that he tasted while visiting his brother in Israel. Dalton has some great wines that were recently released, and I plan on opening up their new […]

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Posted on April 6, 2009 I’ve posted my Passover wine recommendations here and here (and, in an update, I believe that I will be drinking the 2007 Teperberg Silver Sangiovese and the 2007 Tzuba Cabernet Sauvignon for the Passover seder, 2007 Teperberg Terra Malbec, and 2007 Galil Mountain Barbera for the Sabbath and holiday meals). What is the rest of the old and new media suggesting for Passover wine drinking (some recommendations are good – others, well, they still don’t […]

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Posted on March 24, 2009 In honor of the Passover holiday, which features lots of wine, and the growing wine culture in Hebrew, the Hebrew Language Academy (yes, for better or worse, there is such a thing) has come up with Hebrew words for wine-related terminology. The Academia L’Lashon HaIvrit was established by the Israeli Government in 1953 as the “supreme institution for scholarship on the Hebrew language.” Whatever. But, according to the Academia (great Hebrew word there, huh?), here […]

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French food and Israeli wine are not a common combination. After all, when people think Israeli wine they often (wrongly) associate it only with kosher food – thus barring wine and food combinations like mahi in a shrimp sauce with Barkan’s chardonnay. Yet, one French restaurant — TriBeCa’s Capsouto Frères is making just such a pair. “Very few restaurants pair French foods with Israeli wines. That’s what’s so special, it’s a unique experience,” says Jacques Capsouto, co-owner of Capsouto Freres. […]

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For American Jews, the haggadah that they may have used at their Passover seders may have been the Maxwell House Haggadah (and if it still is, might I suggest a replacement!) – old, stale, dumbed down, and boring. And, above all, about coffee. Of course, it was a brilliant marketing move by Maxwell House, to show that coffee was kosher for Passover. But a lousy haggadah that did nothing to educate American Jewry. Well, Israel doesn’t have the Maxwell House […]

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I’ll post my updated comments (including some notes about Jewish law) for this year with my Passover wine recommendations later in the week. In the meantime, check out my recommendation last year and my great wine haggadah. America may have its Maxwell House haggadah, a great marketing piece to remind American Jews that coffee is kosher for Passover, Israel has a wine haggadah – although no one needs a reminder that wine is kosher for Passover. I previously posted this […]

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