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| 100.1 | Additives, Additives, who needs Additives! | CURIE::GOLD | | Fri Apr 04 1986 08:47 | 16 |
| "Specially Sweetened = Sugar Added"
New York allows their wine makers to add things to their wine, such
as sugar. Most other states that make good wines do not, such as
CA and Wash. state. Hagafen Winery in CA. makes good (not great)
Napa valley wines, and they have a strickly kosher rabbinic seal.
They are even kosher l'pesach.
Most of the Kedem wines are pretty bad, if you are used to drinking
good wines (I know, that the term good is subjective). I haven't
found any good Israeli wines yet either. I should add that I like
whites, and my tastes normally run to reislings and the like.
Anyone else have any suggestions?
Jack
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| 100.2 | | WHOARU::MAHLER | Michael | Fri Apr 04 1986 08:53 | 6 |
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All Kosher wines (sweetened) make
me go beddy by.
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| 100.3 | Try Italian and French | PFLOYD::CHERSON | | Fri Apr 04 1986 10:01 | 7 |
| You might try the Kosher for Pesach wines from Italy and France.
Both my wife and I prefer white wine, and we found these to be the
best. I think Barbuto (?) is one label, not sure about the French
name. Carmel does export a few good wines in addition to the mediocre
ones, you just have to look in the right places.
David
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| 100.4 | The grass is always greener... | WHAT::SCHWARTZ | Steven H. Schwartz | Fri Apr 04 1986 10:11 | 6 |
| The Carmel Grenache Rose I drank in Israel back in '81 was excellent.
It was quite different from the Grenache Rose we get here.
All exported Carmel wines are mevushal (pasteurized). I don't know
about their domestic counterparts; that might explain it.
Yo' on TAV*:: -- is it better over there?
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| 100.5 | My favorite wine | SWATT::POLIKOFF | Arnie Polikoff | Fri Apr 04 1986 10:43 | 5 |
| Do any of you wine connoisseurs know if they make a kosher for
Passover ripple.
Just kidding. I thought I would add a little levity after reading
some flames.
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| 100.6 | look for Kedem's *imports* | 4394::GOLDSTEIN | Fred @226-7388 | Fri Apr 04 1986 11:19 | 15 |
| Kedem imports several good Kosher wines -- I wouldn't touch the
stuff they make in NY, though! For Bordeaux freaks, there's Chateau
Le Pin (ironic name, eh?). There are a couple of Italian ones --
a Soave and a Bardolino, I think -- but I too can't remember the
name. I also found a passable Alsatian wine last year (I'm a bit
of a nut for Gewurztraminers).
Don't check your local likker store (unless you live in North
Brookline!). Around Boston, though, there are several sources.
Harvard Wine and Liquor in Brookline, The Wine Press in Brookline,
and Brookline Liquor Mart in Allston all come to mind. Wine stores,
in contrast to liquor stores, are likely to have at least something
decent.
Buy early; last year supplies ran quite low!
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| 100.7 | REAL champagne, soon! | KATIE::RICHARDSON | | Fri Apr 04 1986 12:31 | 19 |
| Fred's right about Chateau Le Pin; we served it at our wedding.
A few weeks ago, we were in NY to visit my husband's grandmother
(lives in a Hasidic nursing home, lower East Side). We happened
to park in front of Schwartz's wine importers, so we stopped by,
and learned something useful. They are going to import REAL
CHAMPAGNE from real champagne houses, and other REAL wines, all
certified kosher by the Paris rabbinate. He plans to not carry
any more non-premium wines, and also said he was making arrangements
to have his imports carried by the Butcherie in Brookline (the one
is Wrocester does not carry wines yet, though they told us a week
or so ago that they are working on it). We only keep kosher during
Passover (I probably should not admit that in this file, but that's
our way of compromising traditions), so Paul and I know what real
champagne is, but it will be quite a revelation when we present
a bottle to my extremely-strict brother-in-law! It was obvious
that Mr. Schwartz knew the difference, too... There really are
a lot more kosher wines around then there used to be, so the strictly
observant are not limited to a steady diet of incredibly-sweet kiddush
wine as the only choice.
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| 100.8 | Where to get it | WHERE::SCHWARTZ | Steven H. Schwartz | Fri Apr 04 1986 13:43 | 5 |
| The (original) Butcherie (Harvard St., Brookline) has what is probably
the largest selection of kosher wines in the area. Kosher Mart
(154 Chestnut Hill Ave, Brighton, four blocks north of Comm. Ave.)
carries a smaller selection, but has some "elegant" wines: -real-
sherry, Asti, one or two champagnes.
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| 100.9 | | TAV02::GOLDMAN | | Sun Apr 06 1986 07:26 | 7 |
| re .1
Carmel makes a very good Emerald Reisling. I think that
I have seen it with an export label - but of course, I
don't know where they export it to!
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| 100.10 | Emerald Riesling in Exile | WHAT::SCHWARTZ | Steven H. Schwartz | Sun Apr 06 1986 10:27 | 3 |
| We get Emerald Riesling here too. It's one of the better Carmel
lines.
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| 100.11 | MORE WINE!!!!??? | NY1MM::BCOHEN | | Mon Apr 07 1986 09:10 | 23 |
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A family in my community sells wine to benefit a local yeshivah,
they have an excellent selection of classy vintages thereby liberating
us from the doldrums of Malaga.
Among the better ones I've had are:
1) Kedem's Bartenura collection: Extremely impressive Asti
Spumante, fantastic Lambrusco, and some good whites ( I forget
the particular names but if it's Bartenura it's good).
2) Gamla- 1984 Cabernet Souvignon , I believe it's an Israeli
wine, that was truly delicious.
3) I think the company is called MALOG (Israeli also) and they
put out a fine line of wines, Golden Amber (semi-sweet white)
was very good.
4) Last but not least- KEDEM WINE COOLER - I've never had the
unkosher wine coolers but this stuff really knocks me for
a loop. A lot of fun and very tasty.
hic. I hope (hic) everybody duz their shooping (hic) in time for
Passover, itsh gonna be a borgasmord (hic) for the four cups.
Bruce
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| 100.12 | my error | STRIPA::NYOSC | | Thu Apr 10 1986 23:43 | 6 |
| SORRY!!!
Misleading information in my prev. reply.
In reference to the company I thought was 'MALOG', is called
"MONFORT". It is an imported Israeli and is very good.
Bruce C.
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| 100.13 | Keep those heads spinning | TAV02::MAYER | | Fri Apr 03 1987 07:31 | 22 |
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This topic has been dormant for about a year so I can only assume
that your heads haven't stopped spinning as a result of all the
good wines you've all been consuming.
So, in the spirit of things I highly recommend for the forthcoming
festivities that you search out wines produced by the Golan winery
and marketted under the YARDEN label. Although it is even kosher
for Pasech it is still the best wine money can buy. Prove me wrong!
I know it is imported into the States but I don't know where you
can get it. Maybe someone can help?
Pricewise, in Israel it sells at about $10 a bottle so it ain't
cheap.
So if you want that something special for your Pasech table try
it.
Hag same'ah
Mike
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| 100.14 | Koshor Packies | AKOV75::SHEPRO | Good enough for Gov't Work | Mon Apr 06 1987 20:10 | 5 |
| I've found that some or most of the packies in the Cooliage Corner
Area of Brookline carry a lot of the Koshor wines. Also , the
Butcherie, a Koshor supermarket on Harvard ST. carries a large
selection of wines.
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| 100.15 | Winecellar | YOUNG::YOUNG | | Wed Apr 08 1987 14:36 | 4 |
| Yarden wine is also available from the Winecellar of Silene.
Paul
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| 100.16 | GAMLA | TAV02::NITSAN | Duvdevani, DEC Israel | Thu Apr 09 1987 04:52 | 5 |
| I'm no expert in wines, and not in kosher-rules, but I really liked the
GAMLA Cabernet Sauvignon (sp?) wine. I think it comes from the same source
as the Yarden wines (i.e., the Golan).
Nitsan.
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| 100.17 | Wine from Abraham's place | TAV02::JONATHAN | | Thu Apr 09 1987 06:07 | 4 |
| Our favorite wine is Light Sweet White Wine from Hebron Vineyards. It sells
in Israel for about $2 a bottle and has a Badatz Hechsher. I think that the
company, which is only about 3 years old, exports overseas. They also have
red sweet wines and dry wines, too.
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