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 civilized, progressive place [...]

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 a kosher wine is [...]

Israel has a single “cult” winery – Margalit.

Founded in 1989, Margalit is the super-small producer leading the region in age-worthy wines. They don’t irrigate their vines, driving the roots down deep to pick up all the site-specific nutrients and smells and flavors from their 2 vineyards in Kadita and Binyamina.
Yair Margalit kindly sent me verticals [...]

A 1,400 year old wine press was recently discovered in Israel, large and advanced and likely used for producing wine to export to places like Egypt or Europe.
It’s pretty common to find even much older wine presses in contemporary Israeli vineyards. The land there has been wine-ing for a long, long time. There is a [...]

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It’s not every day that you get to taste wine with a Master Sommelier – and even less common to taste with a female Master Sommelier since as it turns out there are only 16 of them in the entire world.

I have been interacting with [...]

This past Friday night we held an Israeli wine tasting of 6 wines I import at another one of my fave wine bars in Houston called 13 Celsius. Listen to me….the place was packed!

I love the vibe in this old building. And the crowd keeps it real and fun. I loved the people I met [...]

This afternoon my friend Charles from fave wine bar + retailer + killer restaurant Block 7 Wine Company in Houston held a tasting of 7 wines I import from small wineries in Israel.

I was again amazed by the overwhelmingly positive response top these wines from the great people of Houston.
We have (as I had hoped) [...]

While good wine doesn’t exactly go “bad” there comes a time when you gotta make room for the newest vintage.
We’ve sold A LOT of Flam Classico 2006!
In fact we have only 71 bottles left at last count this afternoon.

And it’s time to make room for the 2007. Which is what I am drinking right this [...]

It’s good to regularly review why you are doing what you are doing.
This allows you to make decisions about how to spend your time and money, and how to allocate attention.
What is it that you INTEND?
And how is what you are doing aligned (or more likely, not aligned) with your intentions?
There’s a big difference between [...]

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 [...]