The Church of England, responding to fewer active members and churchgoers, is considering opening Wine Bars.
Now of course I think this is a great idea! I’d love to be on my way to a wine bar and honestly tell my wife I was going to pray!
But seriously, the REASON I think this is a great [...]

My new friend Lev and his wife Barb had me and several dozen of their best friends over to his lovely home this evening to showcase great wine from Israel.
We had a great time!
This is Lev - you can see he had a miserable time! I mean he HATED these wines (smile).

But seriously…I love it [...]

So pleased to announce that 3 of our wines land on the wine menu today at Barbounia in NYC at 250 Park Avenue South!
This has got to be the first time in the history of Israeli wine that wines have been sold DIRECTLY to a restaurant in a fully compliant manner in the state of [...]

YES, that’s me with a new winemaker friend drinking his wine and YES he’s wearing a rather large weapon on his belt. In addition, he’s about to complete a PhD in agriculture - Shivi is the winemaker at Gvaot winery and a genius in winemaking, agriculture, geography. He lives in a town called Shiloh. Shiloh [...]

I announced at our Press Conference at Flam winery Wednesday afternoon that Israeli Wine Direct is challenging the best United States wineries to a friendly tasting challenge in 2008, also the 60th anniversary of the (re)birth of Israel.
It’s time to re-orient the wine world back to the birthplace of wine.
Does the US wine market produce [...]

Today at 4 PM Israel Time/ 8 AM Central, I will be live streaming an exciting announcement from the Flam winery in the Judean Hills.

It has always seemed to me that the SMARTEST people have a knack for communicating complex ideas SIMPLY.
No one does this better than Jessica Hagy, who posts drawings on, of all things, Index Cards, capturing both personal and business concept succinctly.
I love her stuff and she even has a book collection of her work that’s [...]

We have been infiltrated by The Wine Spies.  They  managed to uncover news about our fantastic 2006 Pelter “Trio” and they were able to talk us into making a few cases available to you and their Operatives (what they call their customers) during their International Selection Sunday on www.thewinespies.com.  They love this wine and expect [...]

A great way to jumpstart your biz is to look for people you have things in common with and PLAY with them.
So, here we go…
Doron Rand, former CEO of Israel’s Recanati Winery (he’s on the right in the photo), who lives now in the San Franciso Bay Area, is joining Israeli Wine Direct in [...]

On our 5th podcast we talk with Israeli Consul General for the Pacific Northwest David Akov.
Wine, even more than other foods, has this amazing way of connecting people across cultures and experiences. We speak with David about the role of wine in Israel’s economy and wine’s central place in a kind of positive cultural rebranding [...]

 

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