MONDAY

The Kitron Winery


The view from the Kitron winery. The owner of this winery loves horses and built a stable in the back.


The view from my hotel room.


TUESDAY

Advanced Bottling line at Tabor Winery.


Advanced Bottling line at Tabor Winery.


Vineyards of the Tabor Winery


The Recanati Winery


Warehouse at Recanati


Stainless steal vats at the Recanati winery.


Storage area for wines aging in barrels at Recanati winery.


WEDNESDAY

Inside the Margalit Winery.


Margalit from the outside.


Alexander Winery's stainless steel tanks.


The impressive underground cellar at Alexander Winery.


The impressive underground cellar at Alexander Winery.


Us doing a tasting in the impressive underground cellar at Alexander Winery.


The Binyamina wine cellar.


The beautiful walkway to the tasting room at Binyamina winery.


The head winemaker of Binyamina and I tasting some wines in the tasting room of the Binyamina winery.


THURSDAY

My first stop on Thursday, arriving at the Flam Winery.


Tasting room at the Flam winery.


Golan Flam on the left and Gilad Flam on the right at the Flam winery.


My second stop of the day is Ella Valley Vineyards. Here I am in a picture with the head winemaker, Doron Rav Hon at the Ella Valley Vineyards.


Third winery of the day is Katlav. This was the most unique experience of the trip. This is the tasting room, or more like Yossi's personal space. It is dimly lit and relaxing in this barn-like building.


Yossi ages his wines in barrels inside a cave-like structure. Here I am in the tasting room looking into the cave.


A picture with the owner and winemaker of Katlav, Yossi Yittach.


I'm on my way to Domaine du Castel from Katlav and we pass by a forest fire in the Judean Hills.


Another look at the forest fire in the Judean Hills.


The wine cellar where all wines are aged at Domaine du Castel.


A beautiful view of the Judean Hills as I am leaving Domain du Castel.


At night I went to a restaurant called Itzik Ha Gadol in Tel Aviv. It is an amazing middle eastern restaurant in Jaffa that I highly recommend anyone visiting to try. As soon as you sit down, before you order, they start bringing side dishes. I think it totaled about 20 dishes in all!