The story of kosher wine is a journey from sweet sacramental wines to world class single vineyard wines. There are now so many kosher wineries

Yatir Forest is the de-luxe, prestige wine of Yatir Winery, which is situated at Tel Arad in the north east Negev desert

Not all wines produced in Israel are automatically kosher. In fact there are more wineries producing non kosher wine in Israel. However more than 90% of the Israeli wine produced is kosher. This is because, without exception, the largest wineries only produce kosher wines.

Israel is a tiny country, which would comfortably fit into New Jersey or Wales. It is a country that is always in the news there is a fascination by the media quite out of proportion to its size.

Carmel have launched a new look for their Private Collection label.

The Israelites? interest in winegrowing is a continual theme throughout the Bible and Talmud. Wine was seen as a symbol of happiness and out of all the books of the Bible, only the Book of Jonah contains no reference to it.

Ronnie James is no longer with us. He passed away. Ronnie was a pioneer, but remained the same lovable, unspoilt character, not changed one iota by success.