Rogovs Guide to World Kosher Wines 2011

Rogovs Guide World Kosher Wines

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Get to Know Us. Not Enabled Word Wise: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled Average Customer Review: In , the first Jewish agricultural college, Mikveh Israel , was founded and featured a course on viticulture. Still in operation today, Carmel is the largest producer of Israeli wine and has been at the forefront of many technical and historical advances in both winemaking and Israeli history. One of the first telephones in Israel was installed at Carmel and the country's first Prime Minister , David Ben-Gurion , worked in Carmel's cellars in his youth. For most of its history in the modern era, the Israeli wine industry was based predominantly on the production of Kosher wines which were exported worldwide to Jewish communities.

The quality of these wines were varied, with many being produced from high- yielding vineyards that valued quantity over quality.

Many of these wines were also somewhat sweet. By there 70 wineries in Israel, and by that numbered jumped to The United States is the largest export destination. The country has also seen the emergence of a modern wine culture with upscale restaurants featuring international wines dedicated to an ever-increasing wine-conscious clientele. Israel has a distinctly Mediterranean climate , with the country located along roughly the same latitude as San Diego and the Mexico — United States border. There are two primary seasons - a hot, humid summer season running from April to October with very little precipitation and a cold, rainy winter season from late October to March.

With a dry growing season , drip irrigation is essential to sustaining viticulture. Vineyard managers will utilize pruning and canopy management techniques to maximize shade production from the sunlight. Harvest will often take place during the cooler temperatures of night time. Small plantings are also found on the Mizpe Ramon plateau and at Neot Smadar in the desert north of Eilat. Across Israel there is a wide range of microclimates due to differing soil types and topography. Most areas have limestone based soils with layers of marl and hard dolomites.

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The color of the soils range from red terra rosa in Judea and Galilee near Mount Tabor to gray in the mountain ranges stretching from Mount Carmel to Zikhron Ya'akov. Marine sediments are found in the loam soils of the coastal plains and at the base of the elevated foothills around Binyamina-Giv'at Ada and Latroun. The Golan Heights and parts of the Upper and Lower Galilee regions have significant layers of basalt deposits of clay and tuff created by centuries of volcanic activity and lava flows.

Wind blown sediment deposits help create the loess based and alluvial sand soils of the Negev area. After many years where in Israel the wine industry was almost non-existent, the past twenty years herald a change in path. In the late eighties there were only a couple of wineries in Israel, making mostly boiled wines for sacramental use.

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That is part of the reason why wines from Israel are mistakenly considered to be boiled wines and Israel is not yet considered and recognised to be a wine region as many other countries are. Over the last twenty years, the Israeli wine industry has grown tremendously and today there are around wineries of different sizes in all areas of Israel.

Israeli wine is produced in five regions: Galilee which includes the sub-regions of the Golan Heights , Upper Galilee and Lower Galilee ; the Judean Hills, surrounding the city of Jerusalem; the Samson region, located between the Judean Hills and the Coastal Plain; the Negev desert region; and the Shomron region, which includes the Sharon plain located near the Mediterranean coast and just south of Haifa.

As of [update] , Israel has 50, dunams of vineyards. The Golan contains some of the highest elevated vineyards in Israeli-controlled territory, with vineyard planted upwards of 4, feet 1, metres from the Sea of Galilee towards Mount Hermon.

The political status of the Golan Heights has resulted in controversy on the export market. In one example, following domestic demand for kosher wine, a number of Golan Heights wines were marketed by Systembolaget , Sweden 's state-owned monopoly alcohol retailer, as "Made in Israel" on shelves and in the sales catalogue.

Following customer complaints and consultation with Sweden's foreign ministry, Systembolaget changed the shelf labelling to read, "Made in Israeli-occupied Syrian territories. Systembolaget's solution was to simply remove all reference to the product's country of origin on shelves and in catalogues, classifying the wine as of "other origins.

On 12 February , Der Spiegel reported that Israel inaccurately labels products from Golan as "made in Israel", mentioning wine as one example. During centuries of Islamic rule, alcohol production was banned as part of the Islamic dietary laws. Ancient vineyards that were grown in the country under Muslim-rule were not used to produce wine, but used strictly for food consumption.

Most were grown in the Bethlehem or Hebron areas primarily by Arabs and the names reflect their Arab origins. These varieties were sold to the few Jewish wineries that existed at that time. The most widely planted varieties include Cabernet Sauvignon , Chardonnay , Merlot and Sauvignon blanc.

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Emerging varieties that have recently been increasing in popularity include Cabernet Franc , Gewurztraminer , Muscat Canelli , Riesling and Syrah. Other varieties planted to some significant degree include Emerald Riesling , Muscat of Alexandria and the crossing Argaman. A primary concern in Israeli wine production is maintaining acid levels to balance the naturally high sugars that the warm climate of the region produces.

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