Israeli Wine – Taste the Mediterranean – HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog – Part 23

Posted at 18:50h in Kosher, Wine industry by Avi 1 Comment

Daniel Rogov seems to have taken a playbook from Gary Vaynerchuk and recorded a video of him tasting wine. Enjoy! And some non-Israeli kosher wines from California and Spain …

Posted at 20:48h in Wine 101 by Avi 1 Comment

Daniel Rogov discusses how to taste wine at a wine festival or wine tasting event. …

The Jerusalem Post blogger Levi Shapiro has a new post about my two favorite Israeli wine folk: Daniel Rogov, Israel’s premier wine critic, and Adam Montefiore, Israel’s premier international wine marketer, often referred to (though he humbly laughs at the claim) as “The Ambassador of…

The following is from wines-israel and reprinted with permission Tishbi Winery was founded in 1985 in Binyamina . The Tishbi family were amongst the first growers to plant vineyards in the southern Mount Carmel area at the end of the 19th century. It is the sixth…

Posted at 06:30h in Reviews, Wine industry by Avi 1 Comment

The following is from Israeli Wines and reprinted with permission ‘TASTED’ is arguably the finest wine magazine you will have seen in your life, or maybe even the most stylish of any magazine that you will ever see. Visually the photographs are sensational and lifelike. Each…

Posted at 23:40h in Wines by Avi 4 Comments

As much as we might not like, sometimes we get gifts of so-called Kiddish wine. In New York, it’s made with Concord Grapes. In Israel, (even when called Concord), it may not be as rancid as Manishewitz, but it’s still not something I want to…

Posted at 15:44h in Reviews, Wines by Avi 0 Comments

Esther Cohen of My Israel Wine Tours tastes Dalton’s Viognier. …

Posted at 19:55h in Wine 101, Wine industry by Avi 1 Comment

This article first appeared on wines-israel.co.il and is reprinted with permission The whole Mount Carmel area has been under international focus since the fierce fires devastated Carmel Forest, the Carmel National Park and the surrounding area. Mt. Carmel is the north east extension of the Shomron mountains….

(This article appeared in wines-israel.co.il and is reprinted with permission) Mark Squires has written reviews of Israeli wines in the latest edition of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. This is the second major tasting Squires has undertaken on Israeli wines this year. He tasted 76 wines this…

Posted at 15:23h in Wine industry by Avi 1 Comment

This article appeared on wines-israel.co.il and is reprinted with permission Daniel Rogov’s annual guides have been published by Toby Press, with two significant additions this year. Firstly, Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines 2011 is published in Hebrew for the first time. This will be very welcome…

Posted at 11:51h in Wine industry, Wineries by Avi 0 Comments

The following article is from wines-israel.com and reprinted with permission. In December 2011, Zichron Ya’acov enters its 130th year. It was way back in December 1882, that settlers from Romania, first arrived in Givat Zamarin to put up their first tents and then houses. It was…

Posted at 09:36h in Wines by Avi 0 Comments

Daniel Rogov has posted his list of Israel’s top wines for the past year – Top Israeli Wines for 2010 and 2011. Here is his list of best Israeli wines. What do you think? …