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		<title>Tel Aviv Wine Meet-up Monday July 19 at 8pm @ Par Derriere Wine Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey friends! In less than 24 hours from now my flight leaves O&#8217;Hare bound for Tel Aviv! I&#8217;m excited to get back to Israel to see friends and colleagues, take a deep(er) dive into the wine scene there, and drink some great wine. PLEASE JOIN ME FOR A WINE MEETUP MONDAY JULY 19 at 8pm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/07/tel-aviv-wine-meet-up-monday-july-19-at-8pm-par-derriere-wine-bar/</link>
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		<title>Is it Kosher?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post on the wine forum he moderates, Israel&#8217;s leading food &#38; wine critic Daniel Rogov noted that several of the leading Israeli boutiques will begin producing kosher wine starting with the 2010 vintage (that&#8217;s now!). The wineries include Flam and Tulip and Saslove. I am the US importer for both Flam and Tulip. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/07/is-it-kosher/</link>
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		<title>The Wine is Here! The Wine is Here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[israeli wine, israeli wine direct, richard shaffer]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/07/the-wine-is-here-the-wine-is-here/</link>
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		<title>Pics from the Margalit Tasting at The Tasting Room in Houston!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Tuesday we held a highly exclusive (12 people only!) Margalit vertical tasting at The Tasting Room in Houston This hip spot is one of the top wine bars in the US and I&#8217;m proud to have a handful of wines I import on their menu, including Pelter Trio. Enjoy the pics! We tasted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/06/pics-from-the-margalit-tasting-at-the-tasting-room-in-houston/</link>
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		<title>The Israeli Wine Scene is all about FAMILY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the 2nd in a series of posts from my pal Esther Cohen, leading Israeli Wine Guide and owner of start-up My Israel Wine Tours. ********** It is well known that there is no sense of personal space in Israel because everyone is a part of a bigger family.  What I&#8217;ve learned about the Israeli [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/05/the-israeli-wine-scene-is-all-about-family/</link>
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		<title>Another Amazing Margalit Vertical Tasting&#8230;this one&#8217;s in Houston !!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tell people all the time how much I love people from Texas. I think Texas people and Israeli people have a lot in common and, in fact, if you pull out your maps, you will discover Texas and Israel share the same hot latitude&#8230;. and the same hot attitude, too! I&#8217;m in NYC this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/05/another-amazing-margalit-vertical-tasting-this-ones-in-houston/</link>
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		<title>Introducing My Israel Wine Tours and Esther Cohen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s best wine regions seem to all have active wine tourism along established wine routes. There&#8217;s a kind of reinforcement that happens for serious wine lovers when they step foot inside the spots whose wines they love. While Israel has been producing wine off and on for thousands of years, and today is home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/05/introducing-my-israel-wine-tours-and-esther-cohen/</link>
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		<title>Taste Israel&#8217;s Best with Me in NYC on May 23rd!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m very excited about what I’m doing in NYC on Sunday May 23rd ! Margalit winery, led by father-son team Yair and Assaf, remains the leading Israeli “cult” winery, and one of the top wineries in the eastern Mediterranean today. Yair kindly sent me a set of “verticals” (a bunch of different vintages of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/05/taste-israels-best-with-me-in-nyc-on-may-23rd/</link>
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		<title>We Really Have No Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was struck today (again) by the fact that none of us fully understands all that goes into creating a bottle of wine and then getting it from (in my case ) Israel onto your kitchen counter or into a restaurant. This morning, I learned the details of the actual vessel that will be transporting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/04/we-really-have-no-idea/</link>
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		<title>Shipping Update: Where in the world is the Israeli Wine?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where in the world is Israeli Wine Direct&#8217;s next wine order? Well that&#8217;s a really good question! I had hoped the 500 or so cases of premium boutique Israeli juice I have just ordered would be in my US warehouse south of Napa by now. But the TTB wine label approval process and a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/04/shipping-update-where-in-the-world-is-the-israeli-wine/</link>
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		<title>Israeli Wine as Effective Counter-Narrative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the story or &#8220;narrative&#8221; we hear about Israel is highly-charged, political (left-leaning), filled with violent images. Often the narrative is of the supposed Big Bad Israeli Soldier mistreating the defenseless Palestinian. Or the whacked-out unshaven settler ruining the lives of otherwise perfectly happy moms in burkhas. Or ungrateful Israeli leaders who won&#8217;t get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/04/israeli-wine-as-effective-counter-narrative/</link>
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		<title>New Wines about to Ship from Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My man on the ground in Israel, Tamir Ronen, is helping wineries get prepped now for our upcoming shipment of new wines. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s coming: Pelter Trio 2008 Pelter Sauv Blanc 2009 Pelter Unoaked Chardonnay 2009 Flam Classico 2008 Flam Sauv Blanc / Chard 2009 Flam Cab Reserve 2005, 2006, 2007 Tulip White Tulip 2008 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/04/new-wines-about-to-ship-from-israel/</link>
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		<title>WSJ Affirms Quality Wine Growing in The Judean Hills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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 &#8220;kosher wine for Passover&#8221;. 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/03/wsj-affirms-quality-wine-growing-in-the-judean-hills/</link>
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		<title>CONTEST: Tell Us How You Really Feel about Manischewitz?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get something straight right out of the proverbial gate&#8230; Manischewitz Wine is NOT Israeli wine! (It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/03/contest-tell-us-how-you-really-feel-about-manischewitz/</link>
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		<title>Join Me for the Wall Street Circle JNF Wine Tasting 3/18 in Manhattan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you know, Israeli Wine Direct and Tzora Vineyards are the exclusive wine partners of JNF. Tzora Vineyards&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/03/join-me-for-the-wall-street-circle-jnf-wine-tasting-318-in-manhattan/</link>
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		<title>Kosher Wine Does Not Necessarily Suck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am I the only person getting weary of all the &#8220;kosher wine sucks&#8221; and &#8220;kosher wine doesn&#8217;t suck&#8221; articles? Here&#8217;s the deal&#8230; If wine that happens to be kosher sucks it&#8217;s not because it&#8217;s kosher that it sucks it&#8217;s because the winemaker, the winemaking or the grapes suck. It really is that simple. And if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/03/kosher-wine-does-not-necessarily-suck/</link>
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		<title>Margalit Winery &#8211; Vertical Tasting at The Bottle Shop in Wilmette 3/10 at 7pm!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Israel has a single &#8220;cult&#8221; winery &#8211; Margalit. Founded in 1989, Margalit is the super-small producer leading the region in age-worthy wines. They don&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/02/margalit-winery-vertical-tasting-at-the-bottle-shop-in-wilmette-310-at-7pm/</link>
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		<title>They Ain&#8217;t Got These in Napa, People!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/02/they-aint-got-these-in-napa-people/</link>
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		<title>Master Sommelier Laura Maniec to Taste Israeli Wine LIVE on 2/18 at 8pm ET!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CLICK HERE to join this event Thursday 2/18 at 8pm ET!!!! It&#8217;s not every day that you get to taste wine with a Master Sommelier &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/02/master-sommelier-laura-maniec-to-taste-israeli-wine-live-on-218-at-8pm-et/</link>
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		<title>Israeli Wine at Houston&#8217;s 13Celsius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;.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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://israeliwineblog.com/2010/02/israeli-wine-at-houstons-13celsius/</link>
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