They say we make judgements about people within the first 30 seconds of meeting them.
Sitting in their lovely winery in Kfar Tikvah (”Village of Hope”) this past August I knew right away I would fall in love with the people, the wine, and the story behind Tulip Winery, located in Israel not too far from [...]
This pic came from my pal Ahuvah Berger who lives in Tel Aviv!
Ahuvah is a beautiful genius and now I just need a picture of her in one of these t-shirts…working on it!
P.S. JUST RECEIVED Ahuvah’s pic!
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Israeli Wine Direct travels cross country in December.
If you are anywhere near any of this action and you care to join us just call me at 847-924-5523, or email me, or message me on Twitter.
Here goes…..
December 3 – Israeli wine tasting at Webster’s Wine Bar in Chicago
December 7 – private event with the Pelter winery [...]
Last Saturday night after an amazing hike in the sunshine outside of Boulder with my pal Ingrid Alongi, my pals Aimee and Bryan hosted an Israeli wine house party in their home in Denver.
We had a blast, drank A LOT of wine from some of the best boutiques in Israel today, chatted about the history [...]
Recently, I wrote about the birth of my new company called MyWineTxt.com, founded by my pal Leah and me.
We just picked our final logo by an Australian designer named JD through Crowdspring. We love the logo.
It’s whimsical, fun, surprising.
And now it’s time to play with the new platform in live party settings, along with messaging our [...]
How do you define expensive wine?
I think what makes a wine a good value (or expensive) is in part a measure of the quality of the wine (how friggin’ good it is) to the sticker price – this is what wine industrry people call the QPR (i.e., the Quality to Price ratio). Though of course no [...]
Tomorrow, the 2009 edition of the ONLY annual guide to Israeli wine, written by international food and wine critic Daniel Rogov, is released.
NO ONE has cataloged the re-emergence of the Original Wine World like Rogov has.
Additionally, no one is as pleasant a friend for lunch!
There are sure to be some surprises!
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As easy as it is to get bored with Wine Spectator magazine, I must admit I am a big fan of columnist Matt Kramer.
He makes me think.
And he has a pithy way of taking complex wine concepts and market dynamics and packaging them up into verbal shorthand.
In his column in the November 15th issue, called [...]
Moshe and Anne Celniker founded Yaffo Winery in 1998 and today the winery is housed in their basement on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Their grapes come from the Judean Hills which, along with the Galilee and Golan Heights, produces the highest-quality grapes in all of Israel.
Currently, Yaffo produces 10,000 bottles annually. The son of Moshe [...]
Marc and Pamela at Enobytes.com used Google to cull through the piles of wine blogs on the Interwebs and rank the current top wine blogs in the US.
Turns out that our humble little blog ranks #18!
Not too shabby…
Makes me want to be sure to do an even better job churning out interesting content for all [...]
