Month: December 2025

There is a great deal of doom and gloom in the global wine industry these days. Sales are on the downturn. The next generation just seems to be less interested in wine than their forebears. Paradoxically, at the same time, wine tourism is blooming. Woe betide those wineries that do not invest in wine tourism and it seems as though they are, in each famous wine region in turn.

Usually, a wine writer writes about wineries and wines, but occasionally it is a vineyard the catches the eye. There are some famous vineyards in Israel, which shine like beacons because either the story, wine quality or the attention they generate. The El Rom vineyard on the Northern Golan Heights, the Kayoumi vineyard (in the early 2000s) in the Upper Galilee, the Shoresh vineyard in the Judean Hills, and the Nana vineyard at Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev are in this category. I recently visited what maybe the latest addition to the club.