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Golan Moscato: Minneapolis Star Tribune's Wine of the Week
Published: 07.23.09 | Source: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune| Viewed: 382 Times
WINE OF THE WEEK Golan "Galilee" Moscato 2008 The experience: Yes, the brand name does evoke the wine's origins: the southern Golan Heights. Fabulously floral, the wine unfolds with beautiful beams of tropical fruit and a tingly... Read more
A NYT Article that sorts out connection between Rothschild, Malmaison, and Clarke
Published: 07.01.09 | Source: The New York Times| Viewed: 263 Times
Wine Talk; Another Rothschild Stands Behind a Bordeaux By Frank J. Prial Published: Wednesday, October 1, 1997 WHO would have thought, a decade ago, that by the turn of the century two of the four Rothschilds most closely... Read more
The Vitkin Winery: They're Speaking My Language
Published: 06.22.09 | Source: Holy Land Tours - Travelujah.com| Viewed: 147 Times
If you try enough wine and venture to enough wineries in Israel or most New World wine regions you'll get your full of Cabernet, Merlot and Chardonnay. Hmmn, maybe C.M.C. should be an acronym for... Read more
wine writer Bertrand Celce visits Castel
Published: 06.16.09 | Source: Wine Terroirs| Viewed: 204 Times
The Domaine du Castel winery is located on the Judean hills in the vicinity of Jerusalem. It sits in the Ramat Raziel moshav (collective farm) in the place of a former chicken farm.... Read more
Laurent Perrier Brut Rose from Coupes
Published: 06.08.09 | Viewed: 335 Times
The other night Bethany and Adam had us over for a delicious meal of chicken kabobs while we tasted through a number of wines. We got things started with a bottle of kosher Laurent... Read more
Book Review: Adventures on the Wine Route by Kermit Lynch
Published: 06.07.09 | Viewed: 258 Times
Adventures on the Wine Route is part memoir and part manifesto. In the book renowned wine importer Kermit Lynch gives us a tour of his career buying wines in France from the early 70’s through... Read more
Drinking a 2000 Blanc du Castel
Published: 03.02.09 | Viewed: 189 Times
Recently I noticed Castel ‘C’ Blanc 2000 on sale at a Chicago auction house. My first reaction was, “good luck selling those". Even though Castel C Blanc is top quality Israeli Chardonnay, experience had taught... Read more
Interesting 1985 NY Times Article About Golan Heights Winery
Published: 01.27.09 | Source: New York Times| Viewed: 149 Times
This is a NY TImes article from 1985 about the Golan Heights Winery by Thomas Friedman, "Battlefield Becomes an Israeli Vineyard". Gives a great perspective on the winery from when it was just getting started. Click... Read more