Am I the only person getting weary of all the “kosher wine sucks” and “kosher wine doesn’t suck” articles?

Here’s the deal…

If wine that happens to be kosher sucks it’s not because it’s kosher that it sucks it’s because the winemaker, the winemaking or the grapes suck.

It really is that simple.

And if a kosher wine is delicious it’s not because it’s kosher it’s because the winemaker, the winemaking and the grapes are good.

Diet Coke and Cheerios are not good because they are kosher (though they are). Bananas are kosher but that’s not why I add them to my protein shakes every morning along with blueberries and almonds, which also are kosher!

There is nothing in the basic kosher winemaking process that turns out sucky wine.

And believe it or not most of the wines I import from Israel (and most of the boutique Israeli wines) are not kosher at all.

(mevushal kosher wine – requiring the boiling or flash-pasteurization of wine – is another story for another post)

If you need an amazing wine from Israel, the Judean Hills in fact, that tastes like the place it is from – all smooth fruit-herby goodness – one that just happens to be kosher for Passover then ORDER TZORA SHORESH 2006.

Sh9resh has been kicking the cracker jacks out of Napa Cabs and other Israeli Cabs in blind tastings for months…wines MUCH more expensive than it is at $39/bottle from us.

This is a single-vineyard wine (Shoresh is the name of the vineyard – the word means “root” in Hebrew) made by UC Davis-trained Eran Pick. I have only around 600 bottles left of this wine in the US.

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