Posted at 03:13h in Wine industry, Wineries by Avi 1 Comment
In 1884, a year before his death, Sir Moses Montefiore, then 100 years old, made his last donation to the new village of Rishon le Zion, birth place of the modern Israel wine industry. Over 100 years later a young Englishman with blue eyes made aliyah…
Posted at 12:09h in Kosher, Wines by Avi 0 Comments
The following is a guest post by Adam Montefiore, the Ambassador of Israeli Wine In most homes, Shabbat is the time to get out the finest crockery. People who look quite scruffy during the week will be dressed in their best suit and finest dresses. There…
Posted at 11:12h in Wineries, Wines by Avi 0 Comments
This was the second year of the Best Value competition, organized by Studio Ben Ami. There were 128 wines in the competition from 28 Israeli wineries. The main category was for wines less than 79 shekels and there were also prizes for wines under 50…
Posted at 23:51h in Wine industry, Wineries by Avi 0 Comments
The Wine Advocate, owned by Robert Parker, the world’s most famous & influential wine critic, has again tasted wines from Israel. This is encouraging because Israel now seems to appear at least once a year in a formal tasting. It was not so long ago that…
Posted at 16:07h in Events by Avi 1 Comment
Unfortunately I can’t attend Israwinexpo today, when it’s only open to the trade. I will be there tomorrow night. However, I want to open this thread as an open forum for initial reactions, photos, links to coverage, etc….
Posted at 00:07h in Kosher, Wine industry, Wines by Avi 0 Comments
I’ve really been enjoying the Wine Enthusiast lately. They’ve got some of the best coverage from a mainstream wine magazine of Israeli wine representing where the Israeli wine market is today. Particularly, I should add, on their social media channels. So, I was pleased to see…
Posted at 23:50h in Wine 101, Wine industry by Avi 3 Comments
[I plan to write much more on this next week, but here is a post that I wrote on Daniel Rogov’s forum] In response to the discussions [on Rogov’s forum] about blogging and the wine industry, I just found out that Lift9 (a social media marketing…
Posted at 16:03h in Wine industry by Avi 2 Comments
(The following is a guest post from Irene Sharon Hodes, reprinted with permission) I had the opportunity to taste a wine that is new to me, Vitkin’s 2006 Petite Sirah. A friend brought the bottle to the vegan dinner party I hosted last Friday (an exceptional experience I…
Posted at 18:36h in Wine industry by Avi 4 Comments
Israwinexpo is coming back! This biennial professional Israeli wine event first occurred in 2006, then again in 2008, and is now coming back to Tel Aviv. Israwinexpo, along with Sommelier, are the two top wine events in Israel. Open to the public only on February 10-11,…
Posted at 21:04h in Events by Avi 2 Comments
It’s not my practice to post kosher wine events on this Israeli wine blog, since kosher wine and israeli wine are different — not all kosher wine is Israeli, not all Israeli wine is kosher, but of course many Israeli wine is kosher and the…
Posted at 19:35h in Events, Wine industry, Wines by Avi 0 Comments
A unique gathering of international chefs came together in Jerusalem to cook a Gala Dinner, to honor Chef Shalom Kadosh. Two hundred people paid NIS 1,800 (nearly US$ 475 each) for a ticket for this unique and prestigious event. The proceeds went to Beit Issie…
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…
