Posted at 20:12h in Events by 3 Comments
Two interesting Israeli wine events in North America this week – including one in Canada (any Canadian readers?): Canada – The Vancouver Israeli Wine Festival runs May 4 (tomorrow – Sunday!), 5-9 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel with wines from nine wineries around that country,…
Posted at 19:00h in Wine industry by 1 Comment
I know, I know, I had some not-so-nice things to say about Carmel. But they often get an unfair shake and some of their top wines are very good and even better than other Israeli wines that have a better reputation. Last Saturday night, my wife,…
Posted at 12:02h in Wine industry, Wineries by 1 Comment
Carmel Mizrahi Winery was founded in 1882 and is, 126 years later, Israel’s largest and most famous winery. While not the first winery in Israel, it is the most well known and for many years (and even today) often serves as the face for Israeli…
Posted at 08:54h in Wine industry, Wineries by 0 Comments
Here is an interesting article from the Canadian Jewish Independent on Israeli wine and my favorite part – the business and export side of quality wine. Nice focus on Carmel and Flam, including quotes from the legendary Adam Montefiore of Carmel and also Golan Flam…
Posted at 12:00h in Wine 101, Wine industry by 1 Comment
Here are some pictures from ancient times (Byzantine era to the Babylonian era) of wine vats (called amphorae, also the name of a great winery in Israel – which is selling under the name Marvah in the United States) that were discovered off Israel’s…
Posted at 09:21h in Wineries by 0 Comments
Carmel Winery – The Original Face of Israeli Wine…
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I visited Carmel Winery’s Zichron Ya’akov winery yesterday. I will have more to come later….
Posted at 17:54h in Wineries by 0 Comments
I apologize that I had not posted this earlier, but apparently if you sent e-mail to [email protected], I did not receive it. Here is an interesting article on Rimon (which is not from grapes and many critics do not consider it a wine) from the…
Posted at 17:27h in Wine industry, Wineries by 2 Comments
Ella Valley is another excellent terroir-driven winery that is making excellent wines in Israel. Ella Valley, founded in 1997 on Kibbutz Netiv Lamed Hay, produced around 150,000 bottles for the 2006 vintage. Run by French-trained winemaker Doron Rav Hon, the grapes all come from nearby vineyards…
