Posted at 10:00h in Wine industry by Avi 0 Comments
In honor of New Year’s Eve, this is a repost of a post from earlier this month about Israeli sparkling wine. I’m drinking the Carmel Selected Sparkling Wine for New Years. What about you? Sparkling wine is the wine of fashion and celebration. Whether on New…
Posted at 20:00h in Wine 101 by Avi 1 Comment
Sparkling wine is the wine of fashion and celebration. Whether on New Year’s Eve or at a wedding, it remains the classic wine to make a toast with. It is also symbol of success and happiness. Though it is a style of wine that has…
Posted at 18:00h in Reviews, Wine industry by 3 Comments
Israel boasts a new champagne (traditional) method sparkling wine from the Golan Heights Winery – the Gamla Brut. This sparkling Israeli wine has just appeared on the shelves – I first saw it on Sunday in Tel Aviv. The Gamla Brut N.V. is half pinot noir…
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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…
Posted at 13:01h in Reviews, Wine industry, Wineries by 0 Comments
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…
