Some top Israeli wines – tasted June 2002

See also purple prose (29 April 2003).

Janna Gur, the editor of Israel's food and wine magazine Al Hashulhan, sent me tasting samples of some of the most highly-rated wines produced there. The number of quality-oriented Israeli producers has increased significantly of late and new, cooler areas are being planted. As you can see from my tasting notes below, I was pretty impressed by some of them. But the thirst of the domestic market is such that prices are often unrealistically high for them to compete on the international market – as you can see from the...