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 [...]

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.