Every time we are presented something from a Kosher winery here in the states, or from Israel, the first thing out of the vender\u2019s mouth is, \u2018but don\u2019t make a point of it being kosher\u2019.\u00a0 First off, what\u2019s wrong with it being Kosher?\u00a0 Does that pidgeonhole it for buyers, the practicing kosher ones thinking it is only for holidays and everyone else presuming it tastes like the mass produced, sweet reds whose names you all know.<\/p>\n
We have a hard time believing it is that cut and dried for most people. But maybe it is.\u00a0 Still it is our belief that if you have a wine that plays on the ‘celebratory’ table, that will afford it a built-in audience from which you move forward.\u00a0 If it happens to be a well made, dry red, the potential followers pool should be even larger because it should make an interesting proposition for folks who are merely looking for something red and tasty without concern for any holiday\/holy day applications.\u00a0 If it happens to sell for a really good price as well, that would appear to be some sort of trifecta.\u00a0 In other words, this is first a candidate for a versatile everyday drinking red<\/em>.\u00a0 Everything else is a bonus.\u00a0 The\u00a0Golan Heights Winery Mount Hermon Red Galilee 2016<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is such a wine.<\/p>\n Golan Heights Winery\/Yarden makes a lot<\/em> of different bottlings under its various labels.\u00a0 It is easy to get lost in the shuffle.\u00a0 But in a recent tasting we zeroed in on this one simply because it was dark, tasty, and engaging and sold for a song.\u00a0 The 2016 Mount Hermon Red<\/strong> exhibits notes of berries and cherries, along with nuances of Mediterranean herbs, chocolate, earth and a little minerality. Made from all five Bordeaux varietals (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec), with Cabernet as the lead player, the grapes come mainly from\u00a0 the Golan Heights, a raised volcanic plateau going from 1300 to 3900 feet in elevation that is the coolest wine region in Israel.\u00a0 A small portion comes from vineyards in Galilee.<\/p>\n We have tasted examples of this before but this one made an impression.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have our Israel vintage chart handy but apparently 2016 was a superior vintage in the region (a warm spring and the earliest harvest in nearly a quarter century).\u00a0\u00a0 Wine Enthusiast noted, \u201cA \u00a0nose of cassis and vanilla sets the scene for flavors of black cherry, blackberry, butterscotch, juniper and violet. It’s easy on entry, offering smooth tannins that slowly reveal themselves, culminating in a floral and cranberry finish. ..92 points.\u201d\u00a0 Tasty, well-priced and, yes, kosher, but you don’t reason need a \u2018reason\u2019 to open this.\u00a0 In the end it’s simply a tasty red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every time we are presented something from a Kosher winery here in the states, or from Israel, the first thing out of the vender\u2019s mouth is, \u2018but don\u2019t make a point of it being kosher\u2019.\u00a0 First off, what\u2019s wrong with it being Kosher?\u00a0 Does that pidgeonhole it for buyers, the practicing kosher ones thinking it … Continue reading “TASTY, WELL-PRICED and (shhh) KOSHER RED”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[220,221,222,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}