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Type : Kosher Wine Alcohol : 14.0 % Size : 500 ml Vintage : 2005 Price : $ 14.95 Purchase :FinestWine.com Description : The Wine : The very aromatic 2006 Yarden Muscat features orange blossom, marmalade and lemon zest notes layered with nutmeg and vanilla bean. The wine is unabashedly sweet, yet retains an elegant drinkability.Yarden Muscat is ready to be enjoyed yet [...]

Type : Kosher Wine Quantity : 750 ml Vintage : 2006 Price : $ 18.95 Purchase :FinestWine.com Description : The Wine : Recanati Merlot is a medium bodied dry wine with a brilliant garnet color. Its robust fruity aroma of plum jam, fresh red berries, and pomegranate is accented by touches of caramel, cloves and vanilla.                      Harvest : In mid September, [...]

Type : Kosher Wine Alc/Vol : 13.5% Size : 750 ml Region : Israel Vintage : 2004 Price : $ 29.95 Purchase :FinestWine.com Description : The richness of the 2004 Yarden Katzrin Chardonnay begins with its nose, which exhibits an aromatic blend of characters: ripe pears and apples, tropical fruits, hints of flowers, all layered with opulent oak. The intensity follows through [...]

Rating : WA-91 Vintage : 2006 Size : 750 ml Sale Price : $9.59 Purchase :FinestWine.com Decsription : The 2006 Shiraz is composed of 46% McLaren Vale, 44% Riverland, and 10% Barossa Valley fruit. It was aged in seasoned French and American oak for 12 months. Opaque purple-colored, it has a nose of cedar, spice box, and blueberry. Fruit-driven, supple-textured, [...]

Type : Kosher Vintage : 2006 Price : $ 26.99 Purchase :FinestWine.com Description : This Kosher for Passover red wine comes from the Bandol appellation, on the edge of the Mediterranean, the Moulin des Costes in the Cadière D’Azur. Domaine Bunan grows a variety of fruit including Mourvèdre, Grenache, and Cinsault. This vintage red wine also includes Syrah, or [...]

Rating : WS-92 Price : $ 25.01 Vintage : 2006 Size : 750 ml Purchase :FinestWine.com Description : A rich, creamy, yet elegant wine, with a seamless mix of ripe pear, apple and creamy, toasty oak flavors that provide a nice balance between fruit and oak. Has a long, persistent finish. Drink now through 2012. 3,500 cases made. Source : [...]

Wine Type : Kosher Wine Bottle Size : 750 ml Region : France Price : $125 Purchase :FinestWine.com Description : Laurent Perrier Brut Rose is intensely fruity, forward and aromatic. The world’s best selling Rose Champagne. Even if you have not been a fan of rose, the perfectly dry finish and deep concentration of flavor is sure to convert you! [...]

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Rating: 4 This wine is very different indeed: a semi-sweet — as opposed to dry — Cabernet Sauvignon. I wasn’t certain this wine would work, but after a few tastings it’s clear that the wine is a winner. At first we tried this wine at room temperature (not chilled at all), and the the flavor was [...]

Rating: 4 I sent a bottle of this wine to some non-Jewish oenophiles of my acquaintance and they loved it. Perhaps my palate is not up to the task, but while I noticed a nice overtone of berries in the wine, I didn’t discover the rich complexities I’d been expecting. Overall it’s a very nice wine, [...]

Rating: 4 This Cabernet Sauvignon is part of a group of wines from the Jerusalem area; I’m in the process of putting together a group to taste them all at once, but in the meantime I couldn’t resist opening this bottle. When I first opened the wine, I was struck by the notes of citrus and [...]

Rating: 4 Every year I keep my eyes open for wines that I can serve at the Passover seder; this year, I’m going to recommend this Gedeon Cabernet Sauvignon for the first cup. The wine has plenty of flavor, and even appeals to those who don’t particularly care for dry wines. With a medium body and [...]

Rating: 5 This wine was simply outstanding, with rich flavor and a perfect balance between all the complex parts that make up a wine. Tasting notes for Cabernet Sauvignon 2003 Tasting Notes color: Deep Red nose: Fruit alcohol: 13.9 rating: 5 Wine Information wine: Cabernet Sauvignon vintage: 2003 winery: Golan Heights label: Gamla country: Israel price: $

Winery: Domaine du Castel Year: 2004 Type: White Country: Israel Judean Hills) Grape Variety: Chardonnay Note: Aged for 12 months on French oak barrels Alcohol: 13.5% Mevushal: No Purchase: FinestWine.com Color: [...]

Rating: 4 Every year I keep my eyes open for wines that I can serve at the Passover seder; this year, I’m going to recommend this Gedeon Cabernet Sauvignon for the first cup. The wine has plenty of flavor, and even appeals to those who don’t particularly care for dry wines. With a medium body and [...]

Rating: 5 This is an excellent wine at a bargain price. The flavor is good, with a pleasant nose of fruit and vanilla, and the high alcohol content gives it some good bite. According to the bottle, this wine ought to improve in the bottle for a few years; the tanins were rather mild, but I [...]

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Winery: Fortant (Les Vins Skalli) Year: 2003 Type: Red Country: France (Sete) Grape Variety: Merlot Note: Alcohol: 13.5% Mevushal: Yes Purchase: FinestWine.com Color: [...]

Rating: 5 I have to admit it: this wine took me by surprise. I wasn’t expecting anything this good. Instead, I this wine turned out to be delightful. During the past couple of years, wineries in the Judean hills — from the rock-filled mountains near Jerusalem — have started to send wine to the United States. [...]

Rating: 5 Some readers may recall that this is one of the wines I selected for myself for the Passover seder. I wanted a wine that was dry and flavorful, and this one qualifies on all counts. This wine, like others from the Judean Vineyards, comes from the Judean hills — from the vicinity of Jerusalem, [...]

Rating: 5 This is a very fine wine. Suprisingly, it is good directly out of the bottle even before getting any air, without any harshness despite its high alcohol content. The wine has a pleasant nose of grape, and after little air, some vanilla as well. One of our tasters noted that it had a “sweetness” [...]

Rating: 5 This was an excellent wine for a Shabbat meal. The wine was very flavorful; I noted the dark berry flavors, and even some hints of the “leather” that the winemaker noted on the bottle. While this wine pairs nicely with standard fare, such as chicken and cholent, I also tried it with a spicy-hot [...]

Winery: Baron Herzog Wine Cellars Year: 2001 Type: Red Country: USA (California) Grape Variety: Merlot Note: Alcohol: 13.5% Mevushal: Yes Buy This Wine: FinestWine.com Color: [...]

Rating: 4 This Cabernet Sauvignon is part of a group of wines from the Jerusalem area; I’m in the process of putting together a group to taste them all at once, but in the meantime I couldn’t resist opening this bottle. When I first opened the wine, I was struck by the notes of citrus and [...]

Winery: Golan Heights Winery Year: 2003 Type: White Country: Israel (Upper Galilee) Grape Variety: Gewurztraminer Note: Alcohol: 14% Mevushal: No Purchase: FinestWine.com Color: [...]

Rating: 4 Every year I keep my eyes open for wines that I can serve at the Passover seder; this year, I’m going to recommend this Gedeon Cabernet Sauvignon for the first cup. The wine has plenty of flavor, and even appeals to those who don’t particularly care for dry wines. With a medium body and [...]

Rating: 4 I really enjoyed this wine. The wine spent several months in French oak casks, and the result is a wine with a French flair. I noticed it as soon as I tasted it and before I even looked at the label: It was mature and mild in a way that I associate with [...]

Rating: 5 This wine was simply outstanding, with rich flavor and a perfect balance between all the complex parts that make up a wine. Tasting notes for Cabernet Sauvignon 2003 Tasting Notes color: Deep Red nose: Fruit alcohol: 13.9 rating: 5 Wine Information wine: Cabernet Sauvignon vintage: 2003 winery: Golan Heights label: Gamla country: Israel price: $

Rating: 5 This is an excellent wine at a bargain price. The flavor is good, with a pleasant nose of fruit and vanilla, and the high alcohol content gives it some good bite. According to the bottle, this wine ought to improve in the bottle for a few years; the tanins were rather mild, but I [...]

Rating: 5 I have to admit it: this wine took me by surprise. I wasn’t expecting anything this good. Instead, I this wine turned out to be delightful. During the past couple of years, wineries in the Judean hills — from the rock-filled mountains near Jerusalem — have started to send wine to the United States. [...]

Winery: Segal’s Year: 2002 Type: Red Country: Israel (Upper Galilee) Grape Variety: Merlot Note: Aged for 12 months in oak barrels. Alcohol: 13.5% Mevushal: No Date [...]

Rating: 5 Some readers may recall that this is one of the wines I selected for myself for the Passover seder. I wanted a wine that was dry and flavorful, and this one qualifies on all counts. This wine, like others from the Judean Vineyards, comes from the Judean hills — from the vicinity of Jerusalem, [...]

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Rating: 5 This is a very fine wine. Suprisingly, it is good directly out of the bottle even before getting any air, without any harshness despite its high alcohol content. The wine has a pleasant nose of grape, and after little air, some vanilla as well. One of our tasters noted that it had a “sweetness” [...]

Rating: 5 This was simply an excellent bottle of wine; I enjoyed it, my family and guests as well. There was no harshness or hard edges, just a very enjoyable bottle that tasted the way Cabernet Sauvignon is supposed to taste. Tasting notes for Cabernet Sauvignon 2000 Tasting Notes color: Dark red dryness: Medium alcohol: 13.9 rating: 5 Wine Information wine: Cabern

Winery: Tishbi Estate Winery Year: 2003 Type: White Country: Israel Grape Variety: Chardonnay Note: Eight months in oak barrels. Alcohol: 13% Mevushal: No Date [...]

Rating: 5 This was an excellent wine for a Shabbat meal. The wine was very flavorful; I noted the dark berry flavors, and even some hints of the “leather” that the winemaker noted on the bottle. While this wine pairs nicely with standard fare, such as chicken and cholent, I also tried it with a spicy-hot [...]

Winery: Kinneret Wine Cellars Year: N/A Type: Red Country: Israel (Ellah Valley) Grape Variety: N/A Note: Sweet table wine Alcohol: 3.5% Mevushal: Yes Date [...]

Name Les Combelles Vintage 2006 - Appellation Bordeaux Region Bordeaux, France Category Rose Kosher Wine Price $ 436.00 price quoted for case of 24 bottles Weight 1 Kg Volume 375 ml Ratings Description Reference 63000 Buy This Wine FinestWine.com

Rating: 4 I’m giving this wine a slightly higher rating than I ordinarily would because my knowledgeable fellow tasters enjoyed this wine very much; at least one tasted his first bottle and immediately purchased an entire case. I did enjoy the wine, but I didn’t think it was fantastic. Out of respect for my friends I [...]

Winery: Carmel Zvi - Segal Brothers Year: 2003 Type: Red Country: Israel (Upper Galilee) Grape Variety: 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot Note: Aged 18 months in American and Fench oak barrels Alcohol: 13% Mevushal: [...]

Rating: 4 This is a very nice Cabernet Saugvignon, with good body and good flavor. The winery claims that the wine will continue to develop over the next five to ten years, and I see no reason to doubt them. Tasting notes for Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 Tasting Notes color: Deep red dryness: Dry nose: Grape alcohol: 13.0 rating: 4 Wine Information wine: Cabernet Sauvi

Winery: Benhaim Winery Year: 2002 Type: Red Country: Israel (Meron Galil) Grape Variety: 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, 5% Syrah Note: Aged for 16 months in French oak barrels Alcohol: 13.5% Mevushal: Date [...]

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Rating: 4 This is a Bordeaux mix, very pleasant on the palate and with plenty of interesting flavor, deep and rich. The wine stood up well to range of different meats and side dishes. Tasting notes for Cabernet Saugivnon Merlot 2003 Tasting Notes color: Deep red alcohol: 13.0 rating: 4 Wine Information wine: Cabernet Saugivnon Merlot vintage: 2003 winery: Segal

Michael Sophocles who described himself as a good Jewish Boy, is the latest contestant to be fired from The Apprentice. The one thing that let him down in a precious task was the fact that he could not tell the difference between Kosher and Halal meat, now how can he be a good Jewish boy. [...]

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Rating: 2 Although the bottlers neglected to include any information, I’ll hazard a guess — based on the name and on the taste — that this wine is a mix of Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Syrah grapes with an emphasis on the latter. The result is a wine with very light body that is so mildly [...]

Winery: Thummerer Winery Year: 1998 Type: Dessert Country: Hungary (Tokaj region) Grape Variety: Szamorodni Note: Sweet white wine Alcohol: 13% Mevushal: No Date [...]

It is a kind of hobby of my husband, Leon, and mine to check new kosher wines as Passover approaches. With each year there are so many from so many different places that it is surprising and exciting. This year we learned of a wine that is very different from any others we [...]

Rating: 3 This wine simply had too much tanin and was hard to drink right out of the bottle. Air didn’t seem to help; I put the bottle aside for a week, testing it every day, and after a week it was finally calm enough to sip. This is actually a good sign for a [...]

Rating: 3 This is an inexpensive wine. I find it drinkable and a bargin at this price; other friends find it completely impossible to drink. I’ve tried two bottles, and while it isn’t impressive it isn’t horrid. Through a typographical error, the bottles don’t say Kosher for Passover and don’t say Mevushal — a pretty serious [...]

Winery: Noah Winery Year: 2004 Type: Dessert Country: Israel (from the Dan area) Grape Variety: Moscato Note: Alcohol: 10.5% Mevushal: Yes Purchase: FinestWine.com Date [...]

May 13, 2008Hundreds Are Arrested in U.S. Sweep of Meat Plant - NYTBy SUSAN SAULNYIn the biggest workplace immigration raid this year, federal agents swept into a kosher meat plant on Monday in Postville, Iowa, and arrested more than 300 workers.The authorities said the workers were suspected of being in the United States illegally or of having participated in identity theft and the fraudulent use

Rating: 2 I was very disappointed in this wine; it was thin and unappealing, with some harshness as well. I tested it by letting it sit overnight, corked, and the next day it was slightly more palatable; this indicates that the wine might be acceptable if it matures in the bottle for a few more [...]

Rating: 3 A drinkable red wine, but not one that has any special flavor or character. Tasting notes for Bonarda 2002 Tasting Notes color: Dark red dryness: Medium alcohol: 12.5 rating: 3 Wine Information wine: Bonarda vintage: 2002 winery: Tierra Salvaje country: Argentina price: $ 9 price: FinestWine.com certification: Local Beit Din passover: Yes mevushal: No Source:

Winery: Golan Heights Winery Year: 2002 Type: Red Country: Israel Grape Variety: Merlot Note: Aged for 14 months in oak barrels. Alcohol: 13% Mevushal: No Purchase: FinestWine.com Date [...]

Rating: 4 Hafner is starting to import kosher wines to the US, and I caught up with them at Vinexpo Americas. I have seen wines from central Europe before, but these are the first kosher wines I’ve seen from Austria. Blaufrankisch is a grape I haven’t tasted before; if I have to compare it to something, [...]

Rating: 3 This wine does very well for the price. The wine isn’t very aggressive with its sparkle or flavor, as you’d find on wines that cost five times the price; but on the other hand the flavor is acceptable and the finish is smooth (rather than bitter, as I’ve found with other inexpensive sparkling [...]

Rating: 3 This is a sparkling wine, and perhaps one of the better inexpensive ones. The alcohol content is a little light, so the wine doesn’t have much bite; but the flavor of the wine grapes comes through, and the wine lacks the bitterness I detect with some sparkling wines in this price range. It’s [...]

At this point lets just say, we wish you success but leave the marketing campaign to professionals next time. Falafelgate Drama Mounts: ‘Spam Isn't Kosher’NYMag.comEarlier, we pointed out that there was something fishy about the fact that Kosher Village, the falafel joint that found its name via a $3,000 contest, reserved the domain name www.koshervillagenyc.com two weeks before the entry deadline. We received a call today from someone who said he submitted the name Kosher Village on March 20, but when he asked owner Nissim Oron for his $3,000, he was told that someone selected the name before him. Was it all a scam?Oron tells us that, indeed, twenty people chose the name Kosher Village (there were 20,000 submissions in all), and all of them except one Adi Libson, who suggested the nam

Rating: 4 This is one of those wines you have in your reserve when you need to serve or give a gift of a sweet wine; it’s quite sweet enough for those who prefer sweet wines, but its a decently-made wine for all that. It’s actually more of a desert wine than a kiddush wine [...]

NYC Restaurant Holds Fake Contest, Misleads Customers, And Collects Email Addresseshat tip Consumerist.comA small glatt kosher restaurant in New York City's East Village ran a contest where people submitted names for the new restaurant. According to the official rules (all 33 words of it), the $3,000 "will be given to the first person who entered the name we will choose." Eric writes in to note that they've announced their new name—Kosher Village—but they haven't announced any winner. To make things more suspicious, they also registered the domain name "koshervillagenyc.com" on April 12th, over two weeks before the contest ended this past Monday the 28th. Eric adds that "the in-store sign for Kosher Village was put up this weekend, also before the contest deadline." So was there ever a

Beaujolais Nouveau is supposed to be a fun, rather than serious wine, and meant to be enjoyed in just the month or so after release (traditionally, the third Thursday in November).In 2001, Abarbanel’s Beaujolais Nouveau was simply excellent. Not only did I and my guests enjoy this wine, but the Wall Street Journal rated this [...]

Rating: 3 Abarbanel does an excellent job on their Beaujolais, so much so that their Beaujolais Noveau is occassionaly rated among the best in the US. This Beaujolais is estate-bottled, usually a mark of higher quality in these wines, a guarantee that the grapes have some traceability and accounting. Abarbanel’s Beaujolais is a fun wine to [...]

Winery: Noah Winery Year: 2002 Type: Red Country: Israel (Judean Hills) Grape Variety: 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot Note: Aged for 12 months in oak barrels Alcohol: 13% Mevushal: Yes Purchase: FinestWine.com Date [...]

Rating: 4 Did you ever hear someone say, “This wine has character”? Well, this is the kind of wine that has lots of character. When I first pored this wine, I actually had to double-check that my glass was clean, because the surface of the wine had an oily sheen to it. I realized later that [...]

Rating: 3 An ordinary Merlot, this wine was quite tolerable after a few minutes of air. My guests and I enjoyed it. The color is not the typical Bordeaux claret; it’s a deeper red. (This wine, or a similar one, also comes in a 180 ml bottle with a screw cap, and in that version [...]

Beginning about a decade ago, a younger generation of Jews decided that there was no reason why they had to be masochistic to be observant when it came to the High Holy Days. Many of them ba’alei teschuva (returnees to the faith), they were also sophisticated in matters of food and drink. They refused to [...]

From CNN :   Cyprus' two communities agreed on Tuesday the agenda of five working groups and technical committees, which will help pave the way for full-fledged reunification talks expected by the end of June.   [ ... ]   A total of 13 working groups and technical committees will be established by the two sides. The working groups will focus on substantive issues like power-sharing, security and property while the technical committees concentrate on day-to-day matters. Leaders of the two communities agreed last month in a breakthrough to revive the long-stalled talks for the reunification of the east Mediterranean island which has remained divided since 1974. On Thursday, a key commercial street bisected following inter-communal violence in the 1960s in old Nicos

Today I’m experiencing somewhat of déjà vu. I’ve just read the most recent post on Jewsingreen.com concerning an Orthodox chaplain -- Army Captain Shmuel Felzenberg – serving in Afghanistan. The article is by Lee Lawrence, correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. In describing Chaplain Felzenberg’s kosher dietary needs, Lawrence says that Felzenberg has “Army-supplied kosher meals. For holidays like Passover, the Army provides supplies, right down to Passover-approved wine.” The U.S. Army has obviously come a long way from my time as an army officer’s wife in Munich, Germany, where the Orthodox chaplain stationed there our first year influenced my husband and me to decide to keep kosher. In those days we did not get kosher food items for Passover from the

It look like Pope Benedict XVI has a sweet kosher tooth, there is nothing like kosher cake to feed it. As it turns out, a famous kosher bakery in Rome’s ancient Jewish ghetto it is one of his favorite places to visit when it's time for desert. There are only few people in Rome that are not familiar with the famous Boccione bakery in Rome's ancient ghetto, the bakery was established in 1555. Alongside a prominent local synagogue and Jewish schools, renowned for making traditional treats by hand for many years. “One of the pope's doctors stopped by the bakery en route to administering a routine checkup of the pontiff and introduced the Kosher pastries the Pope,” recalled bakery owner Wilma Limentani. “I guess he enjoyed the biscotti and 'Jewish pizza' (an almond-and-raisin c

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If you listen to the political pundits, and I don’t advise you do, they will tell you that the upcoming American election is going to be the most revolutionary in history. Why, when you consider that we could have either our first woman or African American President, it truly begins to seem that, in [...]

Bezeq, Israel's dominant (or only) phone company, launched a service that would block calls to porn and other "improper" destination numbers. The porn industry is a leader in technology innovation and they have been exploiting not only the Internet, but also land-line phones and now 3rd generation cellular phones  with video support. You can see the complete details in the Reuters article.