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Rosh Hashana 2021: 19 recommended wines for the holiday, including huge money hits
It has been a very difficult year, very long and very challenging.
Let's open the next in line properly
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Avi Efrati
Wednesday, 01 September 2021, 06:00 Updated: 06:44
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For the Tishrei holidays (and Rosh Hashanah meals, Sukkot and the picnics of the Sabbath) everyone buys wine, even those who do not consume it regularly on all other days.
Wine shelves in supermarkets and shops are flooded with Israeli wine.
As every year before the holiday, we tried to make some order for you.
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The on-and-Estate stoppers came to this tasting.
Lots of bottles were left out of the list, not all of them unworthy.
The guiding principle was no more than one bottle from each winery.
The coefficient of value for money was also taken into account.
This means that there are no luxury bottles and flagship wines on the list.
The most expensive wine in it is priced at 130 shekels.
It is likely that holiday promotions or the purchase of a few will lower the price further in some wineries.
Some of the wines can be purchased in supermarkets, some in wine shops and some in direct sale from winery sites.
In order not to overdo it, these details are not included in the list.
An elementary scrolling of the bottles you are interested in will easily connect you to its possible purchasing channel.
Happy wine year, and cheers!
Without chopsticks
Put meat on the fire, any other wine at this level will cost at least 20 shekels more
To the full article
Let's raise a glass for a slightly better year, which is an understatement (Photo: Giphy)
Carmel, Private Collection, Sauvignon Blanc-Gravzterminer 2020. NIS 40
A surprisingly white, light and full of life blend, in a series of supermarket wines that has managed to surprise every time in recent years.
Cheap local reds worthy of supermarkets there are several.
A little less white.
This wine fills the slot well.
Golan Heights, Gamla, Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot 2019. NIS 59
Another supermarket wine, considered one of the more successful "workhorses" of the large and branded Katzrin winery.
An extroverted blend that almost everyone at the holiday table will love, that will successfully accompany meat meals.
The style, as always in the kingdom of the Golan Heights, is extroverted and round.
That's why it's so successful.
Binyamina, Reserve, Marslan 2019. NIS 59
Even in Binyamina, as in some of the large wineries, it is well understood that the real challenge is to provide quality at moderate pricing.
Their 2019 Marcella Reserve provides everything Shane is supposed to provide for NIS 59, and more.
Marslan is a strain born from a hybrid between Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache.
This wine is well felt by the two historical ancestors - the Cabernet provides the body, the Grenache the fruit and the spiciness of the seasoning.
A great meat wine, which will not take over the food.
Lotem, Loa Nova 2020. NIS 80
100% Sauvignon Blanc from an organic and unique vineyard on Mount Rye.
Light, delicate and clean with a pleasant acidity and great freshness.
Very worthy.
For meals from the sea.
Jezreel, Nahalal 2020. NIS 80
A blend of Syrah and Carignan that has been in barrels for a long time and still manages to maintain a degree of lightness and freshness.
Great for chicken, veal and pasta dishes.
Since it will still be hot on this New Year, it is possible and worthwhile to cool it down a bit before sipping.
Beautiful value for money.
We did it, sort of.
Now for life!
(Photo: Giphy)
Bat Shlomo, Summer Blend Rosa 2020. NIS 80
Carignan-based dry rose that manages to be abundant in red fruit and flowers without falling into overload or unnecessary sweetness.
Light, refreshing, pleasant and suitable for lunches on the second day of the holiday, especially if it is held outside.
Cool well before opening.
Tavor, Eco White 2020. NIS 85
Tavor Winery is branded as a supermarket winery at prices equal to each person.
Quite under the radar, there is also a completely different channel of activity, one in which high-quality wines are created, which are not intended for the masses.
Prices are still the same for everyone, certainly in terms of quality.
The "Eco" series was launched last year, and "Eco White" from it, intended for sale in wine shops, is based on Chardonnay, Roseanne and Shenin Blanc from the Golan Heights and Mitzpe Ramon.
It is a wine that possesses an abundance of complexity, nuances and character, which will suit perfectly any meal that does not have red meat or lamb.
Excellent value for NIS 85.
Agur, Blanca 2020. NIS 90
Citrus and greenish, acidic and mineral, dry, smooth and precise.
Agur's "Blanka" is white that delivers the whole package and its sip is particularly enjoyable.
For those who understand.
Nana, Chenin Blanc 2020. NIS 95
The winemaker Eran Raz (Nana) is signed to particularly successful wine grapes in the Nana vineyard in Mitzpe Ramon.
Winemaker Eran Raz is signed to the current Chenin Blanc wine, which is squeezed into whole clusters and develops a rainbow of fruit flavors on the palate - from white fruits and citrus, through lemon to lychee.
Stylistically, it is a kind of midway between extroverted New World wines, restrained and moderately old-fashioned wines.
There is very good acidity here, clear sharpness and abundance of minerals from the high mountain in the Negev.
You earned it honestly.
Seriously (Photo: Giphy)
Kishor, Misgav, JSM 2018. NIS 95
Ganrash, Syrah and Morbedre that combine with each other to a fruity, elegant, restrained and almost thin blend, slightly mineral, balanced and delicious to Allah.
This wine has a high gastronomic coefficient, which makes it uniquely suitable for accompanying a meat meal of any kind, without taking over the food.
Staff, complete clusters, Carignan 2018. NIS 99
Carignan grapes from a single vineyard in Ein Hemed.
As in some regions in the south of France, this wine fermented with its subtleties, without separation or squeezing, and then remained for about a year in the barrel.
Red and black fruit, lots of spices, rustic, earthy and character.
Priced in the "excess of a hundred" category and provides qualities of 125-130 shekels easily.
Recanati, Beituni 2019. NIS 99
Bitoni is one of the rare varieties that grew in ancient Israel, ages before Baron Rothschild's men planted wine grapes here from France.
The grapes for the current wine come from a single vineyard (not irrigated) in the Judean mountains, near Hebron.
Like its predecessor Segal Winery, it is also fermented in whole clusters.
Nine months of aging in the barrel, wonderfully pleasant fruit, not too crowded, noticeable florality, some herbaceousness and significant minerality.
A fun wine that has a lightness that will suit serving even when it is cold.
Fertile, Chenin Blanc 2020. NIS 100
100% Chenin Blanc from the Ben Iyun vineyard in Elco.
Fermentation in wooden barrels.
Charming, restrained fruit, sharp acidity, significant minerality, complexity and lots of nuances.
2020 was the first vintage year for white wines in Pura, located in Elkosh, and it seems to be an excellent product.
Yatir, Mount Amasa, Rosa 2020. NIS 100
Rosa is dry, mineral, rich in fruit and spices, based mainly on granache, with a little Tempranillo and Morbedre.
The obsolescence adds mass and as always in more style tends towards wealth and extroversion.
Rosa "New World" is very good of its kind.
This is the time (and the rest of Tishrei will also fit) for the cheeks (Photo: Giphy)
Desert, Semyon-Sauvignon 2020. NIS 100
70% Semyon, 30% Sauvignon Blanc, all from the Mitzpe Ramon area.
The Sauvignon is responsible for the structure and sharpness.
On the softness, the semen.
Together they combine a wine that has good fruit, considerable acidity, unmistakable minerality, dryness and cleanliness.
Beauty of wine.
Dalton, Reserve, Cabernet Sauvignon 2018. NIS 110
Like most Dalton wines, the current Cabernet Sauvignon is good at walking the fine line and maintaining the right balance between abundance and a hedonistic line, a nice learning of restraint.
The result: a "new world" wine in the good and restrained sense, which holds a lot of elegance and softness and provides a particularly good value for 110 shekels.
Will hold well any meat meal on the holiday.
Lahat, white 2020. 120
It is difficult to overstate the abilities of the winemaker Itai Lahat, who has been a consultant to quite a few wineries.
"Lahat" is his private wine line, located physically at Kishor Winery.
In the current "white passion" passion for the first time gave up the presence of Sauvignon Blanc.
The blend is based on 82% Roseanne and 18% Viognier from the Upper Galilee and is very Mediterranean.
It has lovely fruit and herbs, excellent dryness, clear minerality and also a refreshing lightness.
White Mediterranean wine at its best.
To my taste, one of the most beautiful Israeli white wine makers.
Chateau Golan, Spirit 2018. NIS 125
Of all the wines that the talented winemaker Uri Hetz has been producing at Chateau Golan for two decades, "Ruach" is the exception.
It is less heavy, less rich and less extroverted.
58% Petit Verdot, 20% Grenache, 17% Syrah and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon combine with a relatively light, well-seasoned wine that can even be cooled a bit before extracting to accompany meats or cheeses of any kind.
pleasure.
Jerusalem, Reserve (single vineyard), Petit Verdot 2018. NIS 130
Petit Verdo from a lone vineyard in the Jerusalem mountains.
15 months aging in wooden barrels.
Plenty of red and black fruit.
Spices.
Wealth and softness, alongside a full body.
A wine-wine that provides qualities of a more expensive wine.
For hearty meat meals and steaks.
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