Those of you watching the news in Israel this evening will have seen that we had another huge theft last night. About seven hundred and fifty thousand shekels worth of wine was stolen. This is our second theft in six years, look if Israel can have two wars in Lebanon... Read more

 The last day of vintage finally arrived with the first clouds of winter finally rolling in. This year was a little weird, we started about two weeks later than usual and had 3.5 cm of rain suddenly in the middle of the harvest, but in the end the weather warmed... Read more

Over the Sukkot holiday the winery will be open for visitors as usual. This holiday we will be able to fully celebrate the new harvest, as the winery will be working most days bringing in grapes. As usual for the adults we will offer a guided tour of the winery... Read more

 The solar panels were finally completed and approved at beginning of September, since then we have been generating electricity at the rate of about 600kWh per day and generating about 1000 shekels per day of income.... Read more

We are into our second week of vintage; Naama is busy scurrying around the north of Israel checking that all the vineyards are healthy and that the grapes are ripening nicely.... Read more

Original post can be found at www.dalton-winery.com. Well it’s finally here; the 2009 vintage has finally begun. This weeks vintage was Sauvignon Blanc from our Safsufa vineyard at the foothills of Mount Meron. The yields were good and the fruit was excellent. Here is a little photomontage showing the first steps... Read more

If you look at the back of any bottle of Dalton wine you will see a cluster of little medallions at the bottom of the label, they are the stamps of the various rabbinical authorities that supervise the Kashrut of our wines. This is a brief article to explain what... Read more

The mealybug is a huge pest in the vineyard; it causes untold damage to the vines and is responsible for spreading a virus that has decimated many of our vineyards. Here are a couple of natural and ecological ways we have tried to combat the situation. ... Read more

It is a site that no winery owner wants to see, bunches of fruit lying on the ground. But for a vineyard which is yielding for the first year it is a worthy investment. ... Read more

As part of the winery’s efforts to contribute to a greener future, we have committed ourselves to installing two photovoltaic solar arrays capable of generating 50kWp each as part of the Israel’s new feed-in tariff scheme. With all that sun we are getting it seemed a shame not... Read more

The Elkosh vineyard in the western galilee is the largest vineyard project that the winery has ever undertaken. It is a 230 dunam site (23 hectares). We began preparing the property in January 2009. Now the time has finally come to plant the vines. Yesterday I visited the... Read more

With so much happening in the new vineyards at the moment it is easy to forget about the progress of our existing vineyards. This week sees the beginning of veraison. This is the time when the red varietals transition from growing to ripening. Until now the bunches have been green and very... Read more

The day has finally arrived, after many months of planning and preparation we have begun planting our new vineyards. Within two weeks we will have planted some 300 dunam (30 hectares) of new vines. ... Read more

This morning we paid a visit to the nursery which is preparing the vines for our new vineyards. It was really interesting seeing how little plants are made from long sticks of dry cane. ... Read more