To you wine-lovers who set a New Year’s resolution of getting out of the Cab-Merlot-Chardonnay wine box and a litte off-the-trail in terms of wine varieties you taste…I’m here to help!

Carignan, anyone?
Usually a sort of behind-the-curtain, high yield, nothing-special blending grape, tiny little Somek winery in Israel has elevated Carignan to fine wine in their [...]

In a “vertical” wine tasting different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery are tasted in an effort to emphasize differences between vintages and also how aging affects the smell and flavor profile of a particular wine.
We generally do not see major vintage variation in Israeli wines given the fairly consistent weather [...]

No one seriously disputes that Margalit winery, founded by father-son winemaking team Yair and Asaf Margalit in 1989, changed the face and raised the bar for all time of the Israeli wine scene. Up-and-coming boutiques benchmark themselves in many ways against the standard Margalit has set.
I have always admired their commitment to producing Israeli wines that [...]