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oldest Israeli wine you've drank?
oldest Israeli wine you've drank?
Wed, 01/21/2009 - 2:28pm | Report Abuse
Mine was a Yarden Merlot 1996 from a magnum consumed in 2008. It was very mature but drinking beautifully I thought. Softened tannin, and still lively fruit and acidity. I was really impressed by this one.
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Thu, 06/11/2009 - 6:52pm | Report Abuse
I remember going to the Golan Heights winery for their 20th anniversary. They had a wine tasting which was a flight of all Yarden Cabernets that they every produced. I believe the oldest was a 1984 Cabernet tasted in 2004.Username : Dan
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Fri, 06/12/2009 - 10:49am | Report Abuse
Do you remember how it was holding up?Username : Scott Shu
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Sun, 06/14/2009 - 6:48pm | Report Abuse
I have no idea what my personal record is.
In a general sense in terms of the varietals, are there particular types of wine that are better when aged and others that are better if of a more recent vintage?
Somebody's father out there must have held on to a bottle from a kid's bris or bar-mitzvah. but maybe it is whisky in that case.
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Mon, 06/15/2009 - 10:06pm | Report Abuse
Teperberg 1950 wine. Made more like a port.
Username : SHAI
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Tue, 06/16/2009 - 9:00am | Report Abuse
Wow! I thought Teperberg is a relatively new winery. I had no idea that they have been producing wines since 1950. Was the wine still good?
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Tue, 06/16/2009 - 2:39pm | Report Abuse
Have in the past drunk many Yarden Wines from years like 85,87,86(rare) but drank them in the mid-90's. Recently tasted Katzrin 90 and Yarden Cabernet Sauvignon 1990 which were interesting. Both wines are past their prime bu the Katzrin for the first hour had a tremendous aroma but was quite porty and sweet on the pallate. The Cab. Sav. shouldn't have been opened. It is something to look at and dream about what could be rather than what is.
In the same tasting had a Margalit 1993 Cabernet Sauvignon Special Reserve and a 1991 Margalit Cabernet. It was shocking to see the color of the 1993, still ink black with a purple/brownish tint at the top. But after 10 minutes in the bottle the room filled up with aromas of a chocolate/coffee/black ripe fruits and the wine was amazingly drinking well. Not somewhat but great, large, spicy, and still with a touch of acidity that still gave a hint of "wait another 2 years and try me again"
The 1991 was like walking in a spice shop. Also black fruit and more portish in feel but if so A GREAT PORT. Still good color certainly for a wine that old and the 3rd effort of the winery in funny conditions of then.
Also tasted and this was just because somone wanted to know if he should open 2 other bottles still in tthe cellar or give it up! The 1976 Rothschild Cabernet Sauvignon.
It opened and smelled dead! It looked bad in color in the first moments. Then lo and behold ,a miracle!! Color turned darkish, not black but rather purple with a hint of brown, aromas moved away from kiddush to port to cabernet. It tasted good for 10 minutes and then took a BUNJY Dive off a high bridge and never looked back. All the same quite a surprise to get 10 minutes out of it
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Wed, 06/24/2009 - 11:59am | Report Abuse
Yes it was. Great alternative to port.
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Wed, 06/24/2009 - 1:32pm | Report Abuse
"Great alternative to port."
Hey, this reminded me of a blog on wine spectator about alternate terms for port-style wine, so I started a new thread on name possibilities for Israeli port:
http://www.mykerem.com/forum/wine-discussion/what-call-israeli-port-syle...
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Wed, 07/01/2009 - 2:14pm | Report Abuse
Teperberg is the new name for the VERY OLD Efrat winery that was founded in 1870. In those days, the wines were horrific and made for the need of sacramental purposes. Starting in 2002 they became Teperberg (named after the family that started the winery).
Personally the oldest Israeli wine that I have tasted was Yarden 1994, and it was still quite nice. I have had kosher wines from the 80s and 70s - but not from Israel, those were from America (Sebastopol and Santa Cruz).
David
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Wed, 07/01/2009 - 2:30pm | Report Abuse
Not the oldest, but I recently had the Casetl C Blanc 2003 vintage. WOW!!!
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Wed, 07/01/2009 - 3:25pm | Report Abuse
Beat ya Lee I just had the 2000 C Blanc this winter. I wrote an article about it:
http://www.mykerem.com/articles/drinking-2000-blanc-du-castel
Username : Scott Shu
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Tue, 07/28/2009 - 6:13pm | Report Abuse
Hi Scott,
The oldest Israeli red wine that I've opened up my own bottle of is the GHW Yarden Pinot Noir, 1999. I may have an older vintage of the GHW Yarden CS at the 25th anniversary festival at the Tel Aviv Port last year.
The oldest Israeli white wine (if late harvest "really" counts for that) is the GHW Yarden Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc, 1988.
- E.Y.
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Tue, 07/28/2009 - 9:18pm | Report Abuse
E.Y.,
Nice! Do you remember how the Yarden Pinot was holding up? When did GHW start making Pinot Noir?
Re: the 88 Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc, I remember someone asking Rogov about that wine on the forum a while ago, sounds fair to call it a benchmark wine maybe for GHW.
Cheers,
Scott
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Wed, 07/29/2009 - 4:24am | Report Abuse
Hi Scott,
The '99 Pinot at the earliest was drunk late spring of last year. It was holding up fairly well being almost at the end of it's drinking window but not yet. I know that I've tasted multiple bottles of the '01 Pinot, yet they were quite past their peak and tasting not like Pinot Noir at all rather much more like Cabernet Sauvignon. I bought my single bottle of GHW Yarden Pinot Noir, 1999 from the Derekh HaYayin/Wine Route flagship store in Tel Aviv for a very reasonable price, and they were obviously stored very well. . .
The '88 Late Harvest SB is considered such a benchmark wine for GHW, that the wine collector that shared one of his bottles with me told me that one of the owners of one of the branches of Avi Ben wine stores offered him something like 1000 or 1500 NIS for each of his remaining bottles and the owner said that he would sell it for a lot more and he had a waiting list that would pay that amount right away.
Best wishes,
E.Y.
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