Next Friday is Shavuot, a festival that celebrates both the harvesting of the first fruit and the giving of the Torah to the Jewish People. Traditionally on Shavuot we eat dairy products, which is too bad for any one with high cholesterol. In celebration of Shavuot the winery will host its visitors to a broad tasting of cheeses made from sheep and goats milk and we will be offering wines to taste to pair with the chesses and dairy dishes in general, particularly all our new white wines, the Fumé Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc Reserve, Chardonnay Reserve and the Rosé. The tasting will be held at the winery visitors’ center on Thursday from 10:00am – 4:00pm. There is no need to book in advance.

We had the pleasure of the self-professed curmudgeon and wine writer Daniel Rogov at the winery on Monday. It was a long day, I picked Rogov up from his home in Tel Aviv and we made our way up to the winery. On the trip up we chatted about all sorts of topics ranging from his new book on kosher wines to the future of the middle-east.