Winestate Magazine September October 2014

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aftertasteELISABETH KINGIsraeli wines – not just kosher, butplenty of classISRAELI chef Yotam Ottolenghi has built up earnest in the 1980s, when flying wine World players isn’t even a fantasy, Israelia cult following in Australia through his TV consultants from Australia, California wine producers are keen to compete on aseries showcasing Mediterranean cuisine. and France helped to introduce new small scale as part of the macro segment.Born in Jerusalem and based in London, he technologies and techniques. Margalitwill visit Sydney and Melbourne at the end Winery, Israel’s first boutique winery, opened The five main growing regions are Galilee,of October to take part in Good Food Month in 1989. But the real breakthrough came including the Golan Heights, the Judeanand launch his new book of upmarket veggie in the early 1990s when Cornelius Gough Hills, a.k.a the Jerusalem Mountains, Samsonrecipes, Plenty More. Almost singlehandedly, of University of California (Shimshon), the Negev and the Sharon plain.Ottolenghi has introduced the two major Davis recommended Galilee and the Judean Hills are consideredthreads of Israeli cuisine – Middle Eastern planting grapes on the the top wine areas because of their coolerand European – to a global audience and Golan Heights. climate, high altitude and volcanic soils.it’s about time a lot more of us updated our Cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernetknowledge of Israeli wines. By the turn of the century there were 70 franc grow very well in both regions and wineries in Israel and today the number has shiraz is also grown. The most popular white You don’t have to be a biblical scholar ballooned to about 300. As in many countries, grapes are carignan, pinotage, chardonnayto know that the first mention of wine in the industry is polarised, with the top 10 and sauvignon blanc, followed by riesling,Israel dates back to the Old Testament. To producers, including Carmel, Barkan and muscat and chenin blanc.the dismay of rabbis and priests through Golan Heights Winery, accounting for 75 perthe ages, Noah has long been labelled as cent of total production. Boutique wineries Robert Parker has ben reviewing Israelithe first known drunk – as was graphically such as the well-known Flam, Tulip and wines for the past seven years and closedepicted in the recent movie starring Russell Tzora produce small-batch and hand-crafted to 30 vintages have scored 90 or above.Crowe. But as Judaism and Christianity bottlings which are attracting the interest of The Yoav Yehuda wine route was Israel’sexplain it, the patriarch simply didn’t realise wine enthusiasts and notable publications first designated wine road and remains thethat when grapes fermented the resulting such as The International Wine Review. most popular because of its proximity toliquid was high in alcohol. Jerusalem. But then this is hardly news. In Ten years ago, one of the greatest obstacles the Old Testament book of Amos, the prophet The wines of Israel enjoyed a brisk export to increasing Israeli wine exports was breaking accurately predicted, “The mountains shalltrade during Roman times but the 7th century the perception that kosher equals Israeli and drip with wine and all the hills shall flow withMuslim conquest annihilated the industry Israeli equals kosher. Today, less than 15 per it”. Fortunately, it’s not the ‘cough medicine’and many indigenous grape varieties into cent of Israeli wines are produced for religious style of yesteryear’s kosher wines and morethe bargain. There were brief revivals during purposes. Just as Ottolenghi has promoted likely to be an exceptional French-influencedthe Crusades and in the mid-19th century. Israeli cuisine as Mediterranean, marketers chardonnay such as Domaine du Castel CThe arrival in the 1880s of Baron Edmond de believe that Israeli wines should be sold as Blanc. If you can’t make the trip, Dan MurphyRothschild, owner of the legendary Chateau Mediterranean or New World wines and have stocks Barkan Classic Cabernet SauvignonLafite-Rothschild, heralded the founding of the their own shelves in liquor outlets, just as and Classic Sauvignon Blanc.modern industry. The aristocratic wine lover Australian, New Zealand, Chilean and Southimported French know-how and winemakers African wines do.to establish the Carmel Winery, which remainsthe largest producer of Israeli wine. Estimates vary widely on how much Israeli wine is produced each year – from 36 million After this promising start, the Israeli wine to 60 million bottles. Approximately 5000industry settled into a decades-long pattern of hectares of vines are planted throughoutproducing kosher wines for local consumption the country from the Lebanese border toand export to Jewish communities around the the Negev desert. The US accounts forworld. It wasn’t until the 1960s that the Carmel about 50 per cent of Israel’s US$30 million-Winery broke the mould and made Israel’s first a-year wine export trade. Although thedry table wine. Quality winemaking began in mega-growth enjoyed by the major Newnext issue: Bring on the bubbles with our annual Champagne and Sparkling tasting! Plus, we taste the ever- elusive pinot noir variety and visit the regions of Hunter Valley, Limestone Coast, North-East Victoria and Hawke’s Bay (NZ).154 W I N E S TAT E September/October 2014

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