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since July 3, 2023
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Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir A winemaker can spend decades learning how to shape a wine, so what happens when kosher restrictions limit which wines you taste? From Jerusalem, I sit down with Ari Gotthelf, a kosher wine producer, importer, and consultant who has made it his mission to b…

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Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir Israel is smaller than New Jersey and yet it may be one of the most quickly changing wine landscapes you can drive across in a single day. That’s why Israel’s first official wine region map matters, and why we wanted to go straight to someone who helped dra…
Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir Your Rosh Hashanah wine choice can either fight the table or join it. When the holiday is already teaching your mouth sweetness through apple and honey, a bone-dry “serious” bottle can accidentally miss the emotional and spiritual assignment. So we make a c…
Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir There’s a line many of us race past every morning in Pitum Haketoret, and once you hear it, you can’t unhear it: Yain Kafrisin. Wine. Not for Kiddush, not for libations, not even to taste, but to soak a stubborn spice so the holiest incense in Judaism can r…
Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir What makes a wine iconic? I’m not asking about the bottle that impressed a critic or the one that cost so much your kids stared at you. I mean the wine you can still describe decades later, with your hands moving, because it welded itself to a moment in you…
Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir I did something to a bottle of red wine that would horrify a marketing department: I took away its name. No grape. No country. No vintage. Just a covered bottle and an honest glass, because I want to see what happens when we stop tasting labels and start ta…
Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir A bulldozer pauses outside Tel Aviv, and the ground opens up into a buried industrial city of wine. Under a soccer field in Yavne, archaeologists uncover five massive wine presses, warehouses, kilns, and tens of thousands of amphorae, pointing to an output …
Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir Two bottles for five dollars used to be the whole story of kosher wine in America and for many of us, it was the taste of Friday night. Then a Berkeley winery released a kosher Cabernet Sauvignon that Decanter scored at a perfect 100 points, no polite cavea…
Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir A week after Tisha B’Av, I’m holding a glass of wine and asking the question you’re not “supposed” to ask out loud: are we ready for the Third Temple? Not because I want a political brawl about red heifers or headlines, but because the very fact that the qu…
Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir The loudest moment at a Jewish wedding isn’t the music. It’s the crack of a glass and the cheer that detonates right on top of it. From Jerusalem, I slow that moment down until it finally makes sense, especially during the Nine Days leading to Tisha B’Av, w…
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