Month: July 2026

I recently was invited to a Shabbat meal in Paris by Menachem Israelievitch, winemaker of Royal Wine Corp. He generously opened a bottle of Château Léoville Poyferré 2005. Looking at the label it looks exactly like the regular wine. However, with your glasses on, looking closely at the capsule, you will discover it is a kosher cuvée. Furthermore, in the kosher niche, it is one of the best performing kosher wines in quality terms.

Royal Wine Corp of Bayonne, New Jersey, is the most important company in the kosher wine world. They are outstandingly the largest producer, importer and distributor of kosher wine in America, but they have tentacles all over the world. Owned by the Herzog family, it was Royal Wine that spread the kosher revolution, raised standards of quality and reaching new countries over the winemaking globe.