It’s common this time of year with Passover right around the corner to find (mostly boring and repetitive) articles and posts around the theme of “kosher wine for Passover”. While I guess these things have become sort of obligatory, they do little I fear to promote the truly great Israeli wines to the general audience [...]

Let’s get something straight right out of the proverbial gate… Manischewitz Wine is NOT Israeli wine! (It’s made from Concord grapes in New York!) However, most of us Jews of all ages regardless of our religiosity have a ton of mental and emotional associations to Manischewitz all wrapped up with memories of childhood Passover seders [...]

As you know, Israeli Wine Direct and Tzora Vineyards are the exclusive wine partners of JNF. Tzora Vineyards’ owner Nathan Hevrony and I are speaking at a JNF Wall Street event March 18. The re-emergence of the Israeli wine world parallels the re-birth of the nation of Israel. And great Israeli wine represents the very [...]

Am I the only person getting weary of all the “kosher wine sucks” and “kosher wine doesn’t suck” articles? Here’s the deal… If wine that happens to be kosher sucks it’s not because it’s kosher that it sucks it’s because the winemaker, the winemaking or the grapes suck. It really is that simple. And if [...]