Most people still don’t realize that wine was born in Israel. Most people don’t realize that in many ways our entire civilization was born there, as well! While great wines exist almost everywhere in the world, as we approach the winter Jewish and Christian holidays of Chanukah and Christmas there is no more meaningful place [...]

READING Cormac McCarthy's The Road and it's coming at such the right time for me. A deep parable dads need to read. # http://twitpic.com/qpeji – Lovin this velvety beauty w the smokey grape kiss # @JRCohen Hey I want to come to Houston weekend of 12/11 – let's do something that brings people together. # [...]

Friday afternoon I delivered an hour-long staff training to the team at Zaytinya restaurant in Washington, DC, as they prepare to launch 5 wines from our portfolio newly on their wine menu!! We tasted through all 5 wines that will launch on the Zaytinya main menu (!!) tomorrow with about 30 team members and made [...]

After I read New York Times wine writer Eric Asimov’s fascinating column about the world of “field blends” I asked Tzora’s UC Davis-trained winemaker Eran Pick to comment. A traditonal field blend is a wine whose grapes are planted side-by-side in a single vineyard, and harvested and fermented together. More typical blends are grown, harvested and vinified [...]

I know I’m always talking about how much I love Texas, and Houston in particular. Well there’s more good news out of that great state. The fun hipster wine bar 13Celsius (get a brie grilled cheese with house-made mustard, pickles and chips on the side when you go) now carries 4 wines from our portfolio. [...]

Here is a picture of our table during the recent Houston Cellar Classic (we had 5 wines there!) hosted by The Tasting Room in Houston who now carries five of the wines I import from Israel. I have recently been telling people (and it’s true!) Israel and Texas share the Same Hot Latitude and the [...]