Last night, I sat for an interview with Esther Steinfeld (her birthday is soon so if you see her wish her a happy birthday, ok?) of The BusinessMakers. The BusinessMakers features interviews and the personal and professional stories of entrepreneurs (our methods and our madness). We took over a private room at The Tasting Room [...]

Mark Squires, a critic on Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate tasting & review team, recently published an article after tasting dozens of Israeli wines called “David Takes Center Stage: The Rise of the Small Wineries”. I have often said that the future of the Israeli quality wine world is in the small wineries. Mark’s article continues [...]

I spent some time recently chatting with winemaker Eran Pick, the UC Davis-trained winemaker producing serious hand-crafted terroir-driven wines in the Judean Hills. A couple weeks ago, one of Eran’s wines (Tzora Shoresh 2006) was chosen as best in a trade panel blind tasting against other Israeli and California Cabernets). And earlier this month, Tzora [...]