One of the MUSTs for any emerging wine region is the development of a literal wine route where people can explore your region, see the sites, and generally feel a part of the PLACE. Yes, wine tourism is a good thing.
Groups in Israel are hard at work on that now. Which is a really good [...]
I like sites that aggregate info for readers on a narrow niche topic of interest.
Here’s a fresh makeover of such a site — Israeli Wines – Pride of Israel.
The site is owned by Israel Preker, who wrote me recently and was kind enough to include a logo link to our site at the bottom of [...]
There are foods that can translate PLACE.
Like wine.
And olive oil, honey, cheese.
There may be others.
Wine is alchemy in action. Wine turns dirt into gold.
Israeli wine has a unique PLACE to translate.
You can begin answering interesting questions when you drink Israeli wine.
Like…what did Jesus drink?
And…what does merlot taste like from the valley where David killed Goliath?
Wine, [...]
This is my pal Sharin (yes, Sharin with an “i”) from Oregon.
She’s (no lie) an amazingly talented opera singer with the Portland Opera – now performing in La Traviata.
You must click here to see her singing LIVE for a local news show.
Thanks, Sharin!
If you live in Portland, OR, please message me since I am (seriously) [...]
Some of you have heard me talking about a new LLC I formed with my pal Leah Jones here in Chicago.
Leah dropped the idea that grew into the company over supper with me late one night at Matilda, her fave haunt, as easy as if she had said “please pass the salt” (this happens a [...]
There’s been another person spotted wearing an Israeli Wine Direct t-shirt, this time in Philadelphia.
Here’s my Twitter pal Reuven Fischer sporting one of our T’s and drinking some kosher wine from Israel in his sukkah!
If you follow his Tweets, you know he is all about the JOY of Good and Right Living (which includes a healthy [...]
I mentioned in a post on Twitter recently that I have been reading (and just finished) a memoir by leading wine importer Neal Rosenthal called Reflections of a Wine Merchant.
I loved this book and hopefully learned a few things from it, too.
One of the things the book led me to reflect on is…..how I select(ed) [...]
One of my absolute favorite wine writers is Hugh Johnson.
Johnson wrote The World Atlas of Wine, which is gorgeous but probably not something everyone in the world needs to run out and buy unless you care A LOT about wine. The photography in that coffee table-style book really rocks.
HOWEVER, Hugh authors an annual Pocket Wine [...]
My friends at Tzora Vineyards, whose wines we import, have always understood (starting with their founding winemaker Ronnie James who really pioneered terroir-driven wines in Israel) that WINE IS A GEOGRAPHY LESSON. The winery was established in 1993.
This”new world” over-focus on grape variety (”give me a merlot…give me a pinot”) is a shortcut that leaves [...]
In honor of the meltdown of the US financial market, Israeli Wine Direct will continue to offer FREE SHIPPING on any purchase of 6 or more bottles!
Our plan had been to increase to 12 the number of bottles you’d need to purchase to receive FREE SHIPPING October 1st.
But, we realized that a financial crisis is a really good time to DRINK MORE WINE!
So, [...]
