I received the following email from Jim Veal, Israel’s Director of Trade and Investment Promotion in Houston, late last week. He gave me his permission to re-print an unedited version of his email here for you. Jim was kind enough to pour our wines at the Houston Cellar Classic this past week and he has [...]

My two favorite wine bars in New York are Terroir and Lelabar. Period.
We have wines from our Israeli portfolio in both of them.
And on November 8 at 4pm, Lelabar is hosting a Guided Wine Tasting with 6 wines from our portfolio for $60 – all paired with food.
Andrew Hotis is a great guy and the [...]

So excited to tell you that 5 (!!) of the wines I import from Israel are being poured at The Houston Cellar Classic – Houston’s week-long food & wine festival hosted by The Tasting Room from October 18 – 25.
Here are the wines they will be pouring:
Pelter Sauv Blanc 2008
Pelter Trio 2007
Flam Classico 2006
Tzora Giv’At [...]

One recent evening, I was pouring some Israeli wine, one of Tzora’s single-vineyard reds from the Judean Hills we have placed in some Whole Foods stores in and around Chicago, for their customers.
A Palestinian woman approached and smelled then tasted the wine. The conversation between the 2 of us went something like this:
Her: “This wine [...]

I recently sat for an interview with my pal Esther Steinfeld from The BusinessMakers at The Tasting Room in Houston.
We talked about wine from Israel, the spiritual dimensions of starting a start-up, advice for entrepreneurs, and Chablis!
I hope you enjoy listening to the interview as much as I enjoyed giving it!
You can listen to it [...]