In our 4th podcast, we interview winemaker Asaf Paz.
Trained in Bordeaux, Asaf today serves as winemaker at both Binyamina, one of Israel’s oldest and largest wineries, and also at rising star, boutique winery Vitkin located in the Sharon region of Israel.  Vitkin produces today around 3,000 cases annually and is well known for experimenting with [...]

 

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Earlier this evening, in a small town on the coast of North Carolina, my parents and their good friends Bruce and Deirdre enjoyed some wine from two small Israeli wineries thousands and thousands of miles away.

They actually conferenced me in 1,000 miles away here in Chicago for a few minutes of the tasting.
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Direct to Trade Selling in Illinois
By now you may have heard we are licensed in Illinois to sell the Israeli wines in our portfolio Direct to Trade.
GAME OVER.
And soon we will be coupling that direct marketing/selling capability with the roll-out of our guerrilla marketing-style consumer cards (we’ll be asking you to take cards into restaurants [...]

I hope more of you will start to follow me on Twitter - the group messaging and micro-blogging platform.
Recently, Massachusetts retailer Bind Ends Wine hosted a virtual wine tasting via, you guessed it, Twitter! (Sounds like they’ll be doing this monthly now.)
They first sent out the list of wines that were going to be [...]

As you know, we poured wine from Israel for 250+ female bloggers at Guy Kawasaki’s home last Thursday night!
Here is another photo with two new pals with whom we shared great wine and conversation:

That’s Melanie Notkin on the left (check out her site for Aunts - SavvyAuntie.com) and Rachel Sarah - author of Single Mom [...]

Who taught us to expect so little from wine?
I got to thinking today about how American men (sorry, but it’s true) have worked so hard to take the fun and sensuality out of wine, the universe’s greatest food, the only food that can taste like foods and other stuff that’s not even in the wine (berries, [...]

The third interview in our series is with winemaker Golan Flam of Flam Winery, Israel’s largest non-kosher producer. Raised the son of the chief winemaker at Carmel, Israel’s large commercial winery, Golan’s winemaking career took a distinct turn. After studying agriculture in Israel and winemaking in Italy and Australia, Golan returned to Israel where he [...]

 

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Tim and I had an amazing time last night pouring wine at the Alltop & Kirtsy.com pre-BlogHer conference house party at Guy Kawasaki’s beautiful home in Atherton, CA.
Guy was nice enough to invite me to pour Israeli wine for his guests.
Here’s a photo Guy took of Tim and me. 

People loved the wines we served and [...]

Many thanks to Eitan, who commented in response to an earlier post, essentially asking….Where have all the grapes gone?
It’s a good question. So, you may be wondering, if it’s true that people were producing wine in Israel 4,000 years ago, if Noah really did plant a vineyard immediately after getting off the Ark, then where have [...]

Okay, so I am a bit obsessed with The Long Tail concept.
If you haven’t read Chris Anderson’s book, it’s just out in paperback with a couple new chapters. Run to get it. If you have any interest in the niche-ification of the entire marketplace (and you should) then this is a Must Read. (In fact, [...]