There are foods that can translate PLACE.
Like wine.
And olive oil, honey, cheese.
There may be others.
Wine is alchemy in action. Wine turns dirt into gold.
Israeli wine has a unique PLACE to translate.
You can begin answering interesting questions when you drink Israeli wine.
Like…what did Jesus drink?
And…what does merlot taste like from the valley where David killed Goliath?
Wine, [...]

Maybe this has happened somewhere else before with Israeli wine but I don’t think so.
Israeli Wine Direct is beginning now to sell Futures (or Pre-Arrivals) of the best premium wines coming out of Israel. “Futures” is just a fancy wine-world way of saying we can let you buy limited exclusive premium wines now for delivery [...]

I announced at our Press Conference at Flam winery Wednesday afternoon that Israeli Wine Direct is challenging the best United States wineries to a friendly tasting challenge in 2008, also the 60th anniversary of the (re)birth of Israel.
It’s time to re-orient the wine world back to the birthplace of wine.
Does the US wine market produce [...]

Being around a lot of unbelievably hip hot women lately has made me realize some things:
Some of the best businesses are all about Bringin’ the Love into People’s Lives.
Most people just want to win; cool people want as many other cool people to win as possible.
Most people talk to you in a way that elevates [...]

Earlier this evening, in a small town on the coast of North Carolina, my parents and their good friends Bruce and Deirdre enjoyed some wine from two small Israeli wineries thousands and thousands of miles away.

They actually conferenced me in 1,000 miles away here in Chicago for a few minutes of the tasting.
Listen to Me: [...]

Who taught us to expect so little from wine?
I got to thinking today about how American men (sorry, but it’s true) have worked so hard to take the fun and sensuality out of wine, the universe’s greatest food, the only food that can taste like foods and other stuff that’s not even in the wine (berries, [...]

Tim and I had an amazing time last night pouring wine at the Alltop & Kirtsy.com pre-BlogHer conference house party at Guy Kawasaki’s beautiful home in Atherton, CA.
Guy was nice enough to invite me to pour Israeli wine for his guests.
Here’s a photo Guy took of Tim and me. 

People loved the wines we served and [...]

Hey, check this out!
Guy Kawasaki invited me to his home next week to pour Israeli wine for - are you ready? - 200 of the top female bloggers. They’ll be in San Francisco for the Blogher Conference. Blogher is an online community for women bloggers.
Guy’s blog How To Change The World and his book The Art of [...]

Please watch this video and help me KILL once and for all the misperception that a wine’s “kosher” status makes the wine anything less (or more) than exactly what it is.
We carry 3 great wines from Israel that just happen to be kosher but I don’t want you to try them (or not) because they are kosher. [...]

One of the books that changed the way I see the world and helped nudged me along into founding Israeli Wine Direct is Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail (recently issued in an updated paperback edition).
The gist: after you get beyond the popular well-known “hits” in any space (music, movies, books, wine) there still exists this “long [...]