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Archive for January, 2008

http://www.herzogwinecellars.com/html/eventscalendar.html First off – NO I do not work for Herzog winery.  Second I am quite sick and tired of east coast bias, around our lovely country.  So I am REALLY happy when Herzog takes the west coast serious.  This is the west coast version of Royal Wine’s Kosher Food and Wine Experience. It takes [...]

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This Friday night we had the chevra over and some of these wines were mine and others also brought wine.  The food was lighter then normally – so the theme was Merlot, but still a bit too much for the dinner of Tunisian Couscous.  The saving grace of Boulettes in heavy tomato sauce made the [...]

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The winery is tucked away at the edge of the road leading out of Moshav Beit Yitzchak – which is located in the Sharon.  The winery was founded by Yoram Shalom in 1996 when his father (who had injured his hipbone) asked someone in the family to carry on the tradition he had been keeping [...]

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The Recanati Winery is tucked away in the Industrial zone of Emek Hefer – a lovely town some 5 kilometers south of Hadera.  The winery was built in 2000 by a group of oenophiles that were looking to build a world class winery to produce kosher wine that would truly compete on the world market.  [...]

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As we drive the 395 to get to Kibbutz Tzuba the winery’s vines grace our approach – they stretch from the bottom of the hill side along the valley below and all the way to the entrance of the Kibbutz.  The Kibbutz is a tech Kibbutz, building bullet-proof glass and other protective shielding, a thriving [...]

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Tucked away into the winding roads that meander through the misty Judean Hills – we find our selves driving through a small Moshav (town) called Nes Harim, in search of the Katlav Winery.  Like so many of the small boutique wineries that are popping up all over these hills – this winery is equally challenging [...]

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Ella Valley is a winery we heard of a few years ago when we saw their wine in a restaurant in  Berkeley, CA.  It was an amazing wine, so we called the distributor and convinced our local store to stock their wines.  Since then the store has gone through the wine a few times and [...]

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The Yatir Winery is literally an oasis in the middle of a desert.   The winery, started in 2001 is south of Jerusalem, but to get there you either go east or west and then south and then west or east.  We drove there by going west and driving south on the 90 south from Jerusalem.  [...]

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This space is about my musings and tasting notes on the world of kosher wine.  I have been drinking wine for some 10 years now and have been privileged to taste some of the best kosher wines from around the world.  We thought it was time to start sharing our wine experiences with others.  We [...]

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