Be'er Sheva Wine Festival: Any News?

Re: Be'er Sheva Wine Festival: Any News?

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 8:56pm | Report Abuse

Daniel,

     I had saeen your post before I made my comments. It's one of the few and most informative updates I read about the festival but several key questions remain for the public.

1) what is the cost of entry and what does that price include?

2) How many wineries will be there? How many kosher wineries for the kosher consumer?

3) Will food be served and what and idea on prices?

4) Most importantly, where will it be located?

5) How many people attended last year and how many are expected this year?

As for the roles of the wineries in promoting the event, each winery is making a significant investment in manpower and wine in participating it would behoove them to make the most of that investment and not rely on the organizers and also to inform even their regular customers nevermind their probable target for these events: new customers who may never have tried their wines or had just tried their entry level wines.

I posted my comments here as a way of soliciting a response and information from them but I'll try calling around this week and see what I find out and try to post it,

I believe the organizers and their minions have the primary role of promoting the event however the wineries must already know where they're going to on THIS Thursday and I would have thought by doing a google search on the event some of their websites would have appeared. When I worked for a small winery in San Diego we posted all events we were attending on our own site.

It's an indication of how in many ways the Israeli wine marketplace has room to mature. It's not just a matter of whether or not  Israel is making good or great wine (it is makiing wuality wine though there is lesser wine in the market every good or great region produces "wine for the masses" whether it be Bordeaux, Tuscany or Napa) becoming recognized as a significant region is as much a matter of marketing prowess as it can be about making quality wine.

I hope as writers about wine we can help pave the way to create and communicate the demand for more advance notice and information about the festivals.

Vinoexpo information in Eilat and the upcoming Tel Aviv event would be good to post sooner than later as well.

David

Re: Be'er Sheva Wine Festival: Any News?

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 2:33pm | Report Abuse

Finally, details on Salute 2009.  the wine festival to be held in Be'er Sheva this Thursday,  3 September. As I wrote earlier,  Be'er Sheva may not be located precisely at the center of the universe, but it is a university city that surprises many by the number of sophisticated people who live there. It has also surprised by hosting two thoroughly successful wine fairs, the first in 2007 and the second in 2008. The third Beer Sheva wine festival is now take place between the hours of 19:00-24:00.  The fair will take place on the grounds of the Museum of the Negev (Rehov Atzma'oot on the corner of Rehov Herzl)

Wineries scheduled to participate include The GolanHeights Winery, Barkan, Segal, Carmel, Tzion, Tabor, Tishbi, Recanati, Teperberg, Yaffo, Cahanov, Tsfat HaAtika, Tzuba, Psagot, Agur, Saslove, Tulip, Galai and Lavie.  Several importers  (among those HaCarem, Shaked, Netivi HaYain, and Ackerman) will also be offering wines for tasting.

Also on hand for tasting and purchase will be cheeses from Meshek Ya'akobs and several brands of olive oil and chocolate..  Available for snacking will be a variety of meats, tortillas and chocolates.

Admission to the fair will be NIS 30.  Perhaps not worth a special trip from Haifa or Jerusalem but certainly very well worth attending for those living in or visiting the southern parts of the country.  

Best

Rogov

Re: Suggestion for the Site: an Event Listing/Tab

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 10:59pm | Report Abuse

of course I would as I hope everyone would... it would be a great service to the industry if there was an ongoing list of events in and out of Israel and if people can contribute their history with the event ( I went last year and it was lame or great that would be helpful steering people to better events... reviews after the event would also be helpful)