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…
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…
Posted at 06:55h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments As I was walking down the street one steamy afternoon in Tel Aviv, I walked by Wines & More at 208 Ben Yehuda (part of Israel’s largest chain of wine shops oddly enough owned by Christian Arabs). I frequently poke into wine shops and restaurants…
Posted at 06:55h in Wine industry by David Rhodes 0 Comments As I was walking down the street one steamy afternoon in Tel Aviv, I walked by Wines & More at 208 Ben Yehuda (part of Israel’s largest chain of wine shops oddly enough owned by Christian Arabs). I frequently poke into wine shops and restaurants…
Posted at 17:00h in Wineries by 0 Comments I promise that this is the last post about Carmel Winery for a little while, but I promised last month some more information and news about Carmel and this post about Carmel’s quality revolution (which definitely does include the opening up of the Yatir Winery)…
Posted at 21:48h in Events, Wine industry, Wineries by 0 Comments Recanati, a great Israeli wine that tends to be Italian in style, is one of Israel’s top wineries, founded 8 years ago by businessman Leon Recanati. Since the beginning, its winemaker has been the American and UC Davis-trained winemaker Lewis Pasco, a regular on the various…
Posted at 16:40h in Events, Wine 101, Wine industry by 0 Comments I promise, promise, promise that this my last post for 2007 on the Beaujolais Nouveau. However, I just saw an interesting article in Ha’aretz about the Israeli wine culture. While winetastingguy noted that wine consumption in America is on the rise, he pointed out that he wasn’t sure what the numbers were in Israel. Well, according to the article, Israeli wine consumption jumped 20% in 2006. That’s a […]
Posted at 15:38h in Wine 101 by Avi 4 Comments This is a guest post by Adam Montefiore, which was first published in www.wines-israel.com These were the words of an English wine journalist who visited Israel four times in the last 15 years and claimed to know to what was good for the Israeli wine industry. His parting advice was: “Learn to love Carignan. Every country has a grape they are known for as their ‘signature’ variety. Why not make […]
Posted at 11:06h in Reviews by 0 Comments A follow up to the below post. If you still can’t decide what sparkling wine to open tonight, here’s two tasting notes on the bubby from Daniel Rogov’s column in Ha’aretz: Pelter, Blanc de Blanc Brut, n.v.: Although categorized as non-vintage, this wine was made with Chardonnay grapes entirely from the 2003 vintage. Gentle yeast and hints of nicely toasted white bread with sharp bubbles that go on and on. Fresh, aromatic, […]
After almost two years of work totaling 10 million NIS (about $2.5 million) the Binyamina Winery (Israel’s 5th largest Winery) reopened their winery’s visitor center. Occupying the historic building that once housed a perfume factory, the building once housed the fledgling winery before it expanded across the street to its current production level of about 3 million bottles of year. The winemaking team of Sasson Ben Aharon & Asaf Paz were on hand to greet the press for a lunch […]
