Kosher Wine Guides
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Kosher Wine Brands: The Names Worth Knowing
A kiddush pour, a Pesach case and a bottle for your father-in-law are three different problems, so here are the kosher wine brands that matter grouped by the job they do. Under $20: Barkan, Carmel, Kedem, Bartenura and Baron Herzog. The middle ground at $20 to $30: Dalton, Teperberg, Herzog and Binyamina. For when it matters: Yarden, Shiloh and Psagot. Real prices on every one, plus the question that matters more than the brand name - whether you need mevushal.
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Kosher Brandy: Slivovitz, Stock 84 and the Whole Shelf
Brandy is distilled fruit - plums make slivovitz, figs make boukha, grapes make the rest. Nine bottles from $19.99 to $249.99, what VS, VSOP and XO really mean, why so much of it is marked Kosher for Passover, and which one to bring to a bris, a kiddush or a gift table.
