Posted on August 5, 2008 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, Carmel has taken the next leap […]

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Posted on June 11, 2008 On Wednesday and Thursday, June 25th and 26th, Israel’s Wine and Gourmet Magazine will be sponsoring it’s 12th wine fair. It will be taking place at the Eretz Israel Museum, which is near Tel Aviv University’s campus and the Diaspora Museum. New this year, it will be possible to purchase wines and have them delivered. Admission is 57NIS (50NIS for subscribers to the magazine). » Filed Under Wine Events Tags: Tags:Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, wine […]

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Posted on December 18, 2008 One of the great things about living in Israel, is that some of the greatest and most surprising wineries are only a short drive away. In America, you have to go to California or Washington State to get America’s best wineries, but in Israel, a great winery is no more than 3 or 4 hours away — and, often, just a 15 minute drive. Blogger treppenwitz, a lover of fine drink, just discovered that 15 […]

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Posted on July 31, 2008 Yom Huledet Sameach. Happy Birthday to me. Yes, today is my birthday. I won’t say how old I am except that I am older than 21. So it’s not often that I ask for wine gift baskets or Israeli wine gifts. But, as a birthday present to me, I have a few suggestions – which will benefit readers of this blog: Make a donation: Check out the Amazon.com Honor System badge “Support the Israeli wine […]

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