Israeli Wine #4 Adir Shiraz 2008
MyIsraelWineTours.com presents a web series devoted to the best of Israeli Wine. Adir Winery is a boutique winery producing 50,000 bottles annually in Kerem Ben Zimra (Upper Galilee). The Shiraz 2008 retails for 120 NIS. Adir Winery is looking to export their wines t the United States within this year, hopefully.
Israeli Wine #1 Dalton Viognier
MyIsraelWineTours.com presents a web series devoted to the best of Israeli Wines.
במרכז המבקרים יקב וחלב אדיר
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Beit El winery, ISRAEL
Beit El winery is happy to share with you pictures from the single vineyard of Cabernet sauvignon, hand-picked at 26 brix
Israeli Wine #5 Tzuba On Location
MyIsraelWineTours.com presents a web series devoted to the best of Israeli Wine. This week I interviewed Paul Dubb, winemaker at Tzuba Winery about his inspiration, vision and enjoyed a wine tasting.
Ron Jacobsohn Goes on a Culinary Tour of the Galilee
Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent:
Vineyards, gourmet restaurants, dairy farms and lots and lots of nature... JN1 takes you on a gourmet trip to the north of Israel on of the most beautiful areas of the country in the summer.
The Galilee is one of the most fascinating areas in Israel. Going there feels sometimes like time has not ruined its natural beauty and that its inhabitants want to keep it that way. Even Israelis who are always eager to go abroad come to the Galilee for a quick getaway from life’s daily stress.
Our first destination on our trip was in Kfar Tiqva, a village for people with special needs.
This is exactly where Roy Itzhaki’s dream came true to create him own winery but not without doing a lot of good in the process.
Roy Itzhaki, Owner, Tulip Winery:
In this village of hope, it looks like a Kibbutz but all the members are 200 members here are with special needs. So I grew up here in a town nearby and I knew the village very well, going to the nurse in the village. I came to the general manager of the village, I told him; look, I want to produce a winery, to produce wines, I want to share it with the community and help the community, so I have an idea to establish the winery here in the village and to employ those people from the village. All the wine critics abroad and specially the most important like Robert Parker and magazines like Wine Spectator gave us the best scores in Israel, always in the top-3, which is we are very happy with this, it's a huge success.
The next stop on our tour was at Bethlehem of Galilee where we found a farm called Spicy Way, which grows every herb and spices imaginable on their organic farm.
Shoshan Tzahor, Spicy Way:
We grow here outside the windows, we have some of our growing fields. We grow here, we dehydrate everything naturally. Some of it is in the store, some we buy from all over Israel, out of Israel and we make sure everything is whole. You have here, what you see behind me is the tea section, tea infusions; you have mixtures for meat, for rice and you have the medicinal herbs department. Everything here is natural and has nothing added to it, no preservatives or salts or anything and that is special. I mean you can get good and pure spices that much. We have a presentation, we have a lecture and we also do a tour in the fields. We have cooking classes which the main goal of them is to learn how to use spices and medicinal herbs on a daily basis.
We then stopped at Dalton, home of the Adir Winery, which to date is one of the biggest independent wine exporters in Israel.
Yossi Rosenberg, Owner, Adir Winery:
We produce every year about 100,000 bottles and most used for the domestic market and about 40% we export to different markets abroad. Basically, we do here all kinds of activities, which combine cheese and wine together, one part represents dairy and the other part represents the winery and we do all kinds of activities which deal with cheese and wine. In the cheese workshop we teach people how to make their own cheese. Each participant gets his own kit and he's doing his own cheese and in the wine workshop it's just an explanation about the wine words and the tasting, wine tastings.
Our final destination of the day was Gili’s Chef Restaurant in picturesque Amirim owned by renowned chef, Gili Altman.
Chef Gili Altman, Owner, Gili’s Chef Restaurant:
I have a diploma, but you don't need diploma to make special food from your heart. I try to make things that you will not find in another place, OK. I cook from inside, not what everybody wants to find in the restaurant; I'm trying to cook what I wish to get in a place like this. I served the dinner like for 2 hours, that people can see it and enjoy the view, the food, to drink. People who come and get our hotel and my restaurant they are not coming because they are hungry now, they are coming for a vacation, for a relax and even the food is not a big food. It's a lot of small plates that people can relax and take a seat and that's what I believe.
Reporter: First I take the cream and put it inside of the pan. Narration Altman challenged me to help him out to create his world famous truffles and who am I to say no to an offer like that.
Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent:
This was an amazing experience and all I can say is that on your next trip to Israel, a visit to the pastoral galilee should be a must. For JN1 I am Ron Jacobsohn at Moshav Amirim just above the see of Galilee.
The Kosher Wine Review #191 2011 Dalton Merlot Single Vineyard Kerem Ben Zimra
Wine From Israel
Israel is becoming one of the best wine producing countries in the world.
Corporate Wine Tour in Israel with Lognet יום גיבוש לחברה ביקבי הרי יהודה
Adir Winery and Dairy
Film for the visitor's center of the Adir Winery and Dairy
Produced by Gal Nahary
Translation and Narration - Paul Gluck
Israeli Wine #7 Bravdo Cabernet Sauvignon 2008
MyIsraelWineTours.com presents a web series devoted to the best of Israeli Wine. This week I discuss Karmei Yosef Winery, also known as, Bravdo Winery. I taste their Cabernet Sauvignon 2008, which is very full bodied and great with a heavier meal.
Israel Wine Tasting in NYC Part II: Josh and Alex
June 4, 2013 at City Winery in NYC.
Josh Wesson and Alex from Dalton Winery have a candid discussion about the quality and tradition of Israeli wine-making, as well as the challenges posed for newcomers in the wine-making and kosher markets.
תשוקות יין - טל גל כהן על יקב אדיר
טל גל כהן מדבר על יקב אדיר (ישראל, אבי ויוסי רוזנברג)
להזמנת טל גל כהן לסדנת יין אצלכם
כל היקבים בישראל
Israel Wine Tasting in NYC Part I: Aileen Robbins introducing the seminar.
June 4, 2013 at City Winery in NYC. The wine tasting was organized by the Israel Economic Mission in NYC.
Exclusive Israeli wines at Zahav
Israeli Wine #8 Agur On Location
MyIsraelWineTours.com presents a web series devoted to the best of Israeli Win. This week I interviewed Shuki, the winemaker of Agur Winery. We tasted the Blanca 2009 and Special Reserve 2008.
Indulge in Israeli wine
With summer soon drawing to an end Jerusalem is wasting no time in offering an array of events from arts and crafts to wine tasting.
Hosting the Israeli Win Festival for the eighth year, Israelis and tourists will have a chance to sample some of the country's best wines.
The event at the Israel Museum will continue until Thursday, and for a small fee visitors receive a wine glass that they can fill to their heart's content at the different stalls. Bottles of wine will also be offered at discount prices at a special store.
Among those participating in this year's festival are Golan Heights, Barkan, Gush Etzion, Dalton, Hebron Mountains, Tishbi, Tabor, and Kibbut Tzuba to name just a few.
Another Israeli Wine and the Uniqueness of the USA Export Market
The USA wine market is unlike many others. As a country we drink more wine than others, but less per person. Consumers are spread out further from our own domestic wine regions than they are in say, France. Getting wine to the New York City market, our largest by volume, might be cheaper from France given that the wine would come via boat, than by train or truck from California.
Israel is at a inflection point in their own wine industry. Quality is higher than it has ever been. They have a natural market at home and abroad that other companies won't be able to enter. Good times are ahead and greater distribution for Israeli wines is going to happen within the next decade, if not sooner.
2010 Dalton ALMA Chardonnay Viognier The Kosher Wine Review #33
Dry Red Wine with Yehoshua Werth
2010 Dalton ALMA Chardonnay Viognier