These books are interesting for a couple of reasons, the first being that they are probably the most comprehensive listing of Israeli wines in any publication and secondly unlike many of the books on the Israeli wines industry this one doesn’t cost me anything to feature in it.

After a relatively smoke free drive up to the winery, I have learned from years of experience to make carefully timed pit-stops as Rogov is a heavy smoker, and a couple of espressos on arrival it was down to work.

Naama had prepared us a mix of wines from 2007 Reserves to 2009 whites and some red tank samples. Many of the 09 reds couldn’t be sampled as we are only about to make the blends next week. Despite the absences the tasting went fairly smoothly we received a fairly complimentary review that can be read here.

So until the same time next year…