Kosher Wine Guides
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What Is Pet Nat Wine? How It's Made and What It Tastes Like
Pet nat is short for petillant naturel. The wine is bottled before it has finished fermenting, so the bubbles come from the wine itself rather than a second fermentation. Why it is cloudy, why it wears a beer cap, how it differs from champagne and prosecco, and the two kosher bottles Dalton makes at $31.99.
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What Does Grand Vin Mean on a Wine Label?
Grand Vin is French for great wine, and on a label it means the estate's flagship bottling - not a legal classification, and not the same thing as Grand Cru. Where the idea comes from in Bordeaux, what it does not tell you, and the Domaine du Castel ladder from $29.99 to $112.99 as a worked example.
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Yatir Winery Guide: Forest, Mt. Amasa, Petit Verdot and Darom
Vines at 900 metres on the edge of the Negev, hot days and cold nights, and a flagship red built to age ten years. The whole Yatir range from the $29.99 Darom rose to the $244.99 magnum, and which bottle is the right one for your table.
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The Best Israeli Red Wines
Israel makes more good red wine than most people realise, and almost all of it is kosher. Here is what the regions taste like and which bottles are worth your money at every price.




