Dr. Yair Margalit is the founding winemaker, in 1989, of Margalit winery. He and winemaker son Asaf have a special interest in Bourdeaux varieties and many (including me) view Margalit as Israel’s premium “cult” winery. Their insistence on low-yield, no-irrigation winemaking results in age-worthy wines that are among the best not just in Israel but [...]

This is a close-up of what Tzora’s Shoresh vineyard looks like. I import 3 wines from Tzora Vineyards winery in Israel – each wine from one of their single named vineyards. Tzora was one of the earliest wineries in Israel to understand that wine is a mechanism for translating a particular PLACE. So if that’s [...]

The Tishbi family came to Israel in the late 19th century from Europe and established their home and winery in the beautiful Mediterranean town of Zichron Yaacov. They had been chosen by Baron Rothschild of Chateau Lafite in France to plant and develop vineyards on the land in 1882 and now have vineyards all across [...]