HaKerem: The Israeli Wine Blog

Posted at 17:17h in Wineries by Avi 0 Comments Not sure what to get for the wine lover for Christmas? Want to show appreciation to the Jewish wine lover? Just looking for a great gift for the New Year? Rogov’s annual wine guide, Rogov’s Guides to Israeli & Kosher Wines 2011, — now including both Israeli (kosher and non-kosher) and kosher wines from all over the world — is now available for pre-order! Click the link below and ORDER TODAY!

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Posted at 22:48h in Wine industry, Wineries by 0 Comments This video is a fascinating introduction to Tzuba Winery. Unforunately, it’s all in Hebrew, which makes its usefulness rather limited outside of Israel. I often wonder why Israel doesn’t invest more in English-language material on its wineries. There is even an Israeli wine forum or two that attacks the few outlets for Israeli wine in English. Nevertheless, I digress. Even if you don’t understand the video, this introduction to Tzuba […]

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Posted at 16:00h in Wine industry by 0 Comments If you’ve been to the supermarket lately, you’ve probably noticed that the hottest trend in the food industry is pomegranate products. Several years before the trend got started, a family in Israel’s Upper Galilee region began working to create a tastier and healthier version of the ancient fruit, only to cross their way into yet another huge food market. Their product: the world’s first pomegranate wine fit to be sold to […]

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Posted at 06:01h in Wineries by 0 Comments I’m up visiting wineries up north, but in the meantime read this fascinating article about Eli Ben-Zaken and Domaine du Castel from the Wall Street Journal. Why does it seem that Castel is the only winery with a good PR strategy (and, of course, one of Israel’s best!) Israel’s New Revolution in Quality By WILLIAM ECHIKSON SPECIAL TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL February 22, 2008 It started as a hobby. Eli-Gilbert Ben-Zaken, […]

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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 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. […]

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JERUSALEM, Sept. 10, 2008 — Eli Gilbert Ben-Zaken, the founder of Domaine du Castel, one of the world’s most prominent wineries, had a gut feeling that Monday was the perfect time to harvest his grapes. “I imagine a lot of the smaller wineries are harvesting with a scientific method and not a gut feeling. But, we are definitely operating under a gut instinct,” Ben-Zaken told ABCNews.com. “The decision of the day of the harvest is so important. It’s irreversible and […]

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Posted at 22:18h in Wine industry by Avi 0 Comments This tribute is from Daniel Rogov’s tribute meal this past summer and taken by the amazing Israel Preker. Rogov died shortly after. Victor Shoenfeld is the chief winemaker of Golan Heights Winery.

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Posted at 19:51h in Wine 101, Wine industry by 0 Comments One of the topics of this blog will be the young wine drinker, the late Gen X and the Millenial (1975-legal drinking age). I just received an e-mail from Gary Vaynerchuk, the brash, pedestrian, young host of Wine Library TV, a video podcast about wine, and Director of Operations at his father’s megaliquor store, Wine Library, in New Jersey about an article about Wine 2.0 in CNN. Wine 2.0 […]

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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 (immigrated) to Israel. The great, great grandson of Moses Montefiore’s heir had the same objective – to contribute to Israel and to advance Israeli […]

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Posted at 15:24h in Grapes, Wine industry by David Rhodes 1 Comment Not too long ago you may recall some rave reviews by me about some Recanati wines. Generally speaking I think they are consistently one of the best commercial wineries in Israel so when I heard they were releasing a new wine I was excited for… One of the best Israeli examples of my belief that wine can be called “philosophy in a bottle” is from the Recanati Winery. […]

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