My own personal great Port experience is comparatively recent. A bottle of Port was given to my son David, every year on his birthday, by

New Year’s Eve or Sylvester’s is the time for sparkling wine. This is a fast growing sector. Anything with bubbles is considered ‘in’ and increasingly

I was born into the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community and even had my Bar Mitzvah at their Maida Vale Synagogue in London. We were

I recently was invited on two successive days to events hosted by Hennessy Cognac and Penfolds Winery. These are icons in the wine and spirits

Latroun is mainly known in Israel as a junction, off the Tel Aviv Jerusalem highway, set in the gentle curves of the Judean Foothills. Latroun

For over forty years Hagafen has been a fixture on the kosher wine shelves and a feature in the Napa Valley wine scene. The wine

I have written about wine in international and local media for nearly thirty years, but for much of that time I also worked for wineries.

Rosh Hashana is upon us again. The wine trade eagerly awaits the holidays because this is when the wine sales boom. The consumer also enjoys

Jay Buchsbaum was always known in my family as ‘Boobie’ Buchsbaum, because of long car conversations in the car, when he always called me ‘Boobie’.

The Montefiore Windmill was built in 1857 and became a symbol of modern Jerusalem and a prominent part of the Jerusalem skyline. It is situated

When I first came to Israel, there was one wine region that was considered above all others. The Golan Heights with its high elevation, volcanic

There are no end of options for the wine tourist in Israel and there are wine routes that cover the country. There is the Galilee