In 2009 I commit to finding more ways to include more of YOU as extensions of our team.
Much of our expansion in 2009 will come through growing our team of employees and partners. For instance, we are very close to announcing a sales director for the West Coast who will focus on Direct to Trade selling [...]

Some of you  have heard me talking about a new LLC I formed with my pal Leah Jones here in Chicago.
Leah dropped the idea that grew into the company over supper with me late one night at Matilda, her fave haunt, as easy as if she had said “please pass the salt” (this happens a [...]

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 [...]

A great way to jumpstart your biz is to look for people you have things in common with and PLAY with them.
So, here we go…
Doron Rand, former CEO of Israel’s Recanati Winery (he’s on the right in the photo), who lives now in the San Franciso Bay Area, is joining Israeli Wine Direct in [...]

This is the first post in a series called WINE: WHAT IT BE that promises NOT to be your Daddy’s Traditional Boring Wine Commentary, promise.

I’m BORED with the Robert Parker-Ralph Nader-Consumer Reports Approach to wine, the most metaphysical alchemical substance in the Universe.
Check out how Food writers write about Food, or how Erotica authors talk [...]

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: [...]

Many thanks to Eitan, who commented in response to an earlier post, essentially asking….Where have all the grapes gone?
It’s a good question. So, you may be wondering, if it’s true that people were producing wine in Israel 4,000 years ago, if Noah really did plant a vineyard immediately after getting off the Ark, then where have [...]

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. [...]

I have spoken before about the need we have to get as many Americans as possible to taste wine from Israel.
What you experience when you try these wines is SURPRISE and then EXCITEMENT and then there’s that MOMENT when it hits you that you’re tasting something few people have ever tasted…Israel in a bottle, the Future [...]

In our family, we’re so shamelessly excited about wine from Israel we outfit even the 2 year old, Hannah, in Israeli Wine Direct stuff!
If you want me to send you a t-shirt for your kid or yourself or your pals, email me at richard@israeliwinedirect.com with your name, address and t-shirt size and I will send you [...]