Israeli Wine Market and Israeli Wine Exports

We forecast that sales of Israeli wines will exceed $160 million in 2009, with most of the growth in wine exports hitting $30 million in 2010. U.S. account for about 60% of exports, UK for 20% and France about 7%. Carmel Winery holds about 50% of the local market.

Syrians Complain to UN about Israeli Wine

Event Israeli wine can’t avoid explosive Middle East politics. Syrian government filed a complaint to the UN regarding Israel’s giving out wine from the Golan Heights as New Year gifts to UN staff. UN mission spokeswoman Mirit Cohen said: “The Golan Heights is an integral part of the state of Israel and the wine produced [...]

Israeli Wine Roadmap

Wine has always been produced in the land of land of milk and honey since times and Adam and Eve. The lands of Canaan and Judea were producing wine over twenty centuries years before Europe. In times of the King David the wine industry greatly contributed to the king’s treasury and wine had significant [...]

Emergence of Israeli Wine Boutiques

Part technology and high altitude, cooler vineyards, the Golan led the country to a new dawn of quality wine. They won a host of gold medals and a number of trophies at the IWSC in London and Vinexpo in Bordeaux - in particular with their premier label, Yarden.
Winery began to encourage vineyard owners to improve [...]

Israeli Wine Varieties

The most common grape varieties are Cabernet Sauvignon (The best awards for Israeli wines & the premier wine of each winery tends to be with this grape), Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay. Others include Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, Johannisberg Riesling, Gewürztraminer and Muscat Canelli. Of the newer varieties, Syrah/Shiraz was noted as the most promising. [...]

Israeli Wine Influences

Although the Israeli wine industry was built on French roots, Californian winemakers were responsible for the significant changes of the 1980s. Today nearly all the winemakers from the larger wineries and some from the better boutique wineries are internationally trained - mainly in Australia, California, France or Italy. It can be said that Australia has [...]

Israeli Wine Growing Regions

The country is divided into five vine-growing regions:

Galil (Galilee) - the region most suited for viniculture in Israel due to its high elevation, cool breezes, marked day and night temperature changes and rich, well-drained soils (most suitable for Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay)
Judean Hills - surrounding the city of Jerusalem, and with a [...]

Israeli Wine Prizes

Israel wins most prizes for its red wines, in particular Cabernet Sauvignon, but awards have been won for traditional method sparkling wines, white wines & dessert wines too. Eleven different Israeli wineries have won gold medals at the very highest level of international blind tasting wine competitions at least once, and some are regular winners. [...]

Israeli Wine Tourism

It was announced in early 2008 that a 150-acre (0.61 km2) wine park would be created on the slopes between Zichron Ya’akov and Binyamina in order to promote tourism in the area and wine tourism in Israel in general.