#126 – May 7, 2010 Although I consider any winery producing top-notch, hedonistic pleasure-inducing wine a dear friend; with both Yatir and Gvaot among my favorites and Bustan a soul mate, Ella Valley has always been my true love ever since my magical taste of their 2002 Merlot which I was first introduced to by […]
#129 – June 4, 2010 Given my sometimes exuberant enthusiasm for the varietal, I am sure that you have all realized by now that the topic of this week’s newsletter – Cabernet Franc – is one of my favorite grapes and produces wines that I enjoy tremendously. While DNA testing in 1997 indicated that Cabernet […]
#134 – July 8, 2010 Last night was a rare night in which I commuted home via subway, which necessitated descending into the pits of Hell – otherwise known as a New York City subway platform – where the combination of heat and humidity can drive temperatures over 100F and a man insane. Given the […]
#149 – November 11, 2010 (more recent update) One of my favorite oenophilic pleasures is getting to taste wines from new wineries or wineries of which I wasn’t previously aware. While the kosher wine world is growing on a massive scale, it’s relatively rare for me come across a respectable winery whose wines I wasn’t […]
#146 – October 21, 2010 With all the recent newsletter mentions of Champagne over in various contexts, I got to thinking that I hadn’t done a full-blown Champagne piece in a few years and that the time had come. That, together with an email suggestion from SG, led to the topic of this week’s newsletter […]
While I am sure this will come as a complete shock to my readers (all of whom are clearly well-rounded and sophisticated individuals), there are a large number of folks out there who think that all wines are alike and differences between wines are irrelevant and purely fictional (gasp). These are probably the same folk […]
#148 – November 10, 2010 After covering California’s largest kosher winery last week, this week I am writing about a number of smaller Californian wineries where a recent proliferation of great kosher wine bodes amazingly well for the future of the kosher oenophile. While Herzog and Hagafen are well known and, together with Four Gates […]
Yossie’s Wine Recommendations #120 – 3/12/10 Holiday Prep – Pessach Buying Guide #1 NOTE: Scroll to the bottom for the Pessach Recommended Wine Lists The weeks leading up to Pessach are among the US kosher wine industry’s busiest as more wine is sold during this time than the rest of the year combined. Practically all […]
#124 – April 25, 2010 The advent of spring usually brings forth a number of newsletters devoted to the glorious wines of summer including fresh flavored Rose wines or crisply refreshing Sauvignon Blanc wines. As global warming slowly envelopes the world in its tentacles, these newsletters have been appearing ever more early in the year […]
#180 – July 21, 2011 With New York temperatures reaching 100ºF today (even before taking the tortuous humidity into effect making midtown Manhattan feel like a breezy 109ºF), I am sure I will be forgiven for focusing once again on the heat. As I make my way to work each day through a sea of […]