When I first made the decision to bump my visits to France to twice a year, I expected to have less wine to taste per trip. These trips to France are always with my friend David Raccah of Kosher Wine Musings, and he has been doing this twice a year since the start. When I … Continue reading France, January 2025 – Part 1 – Royal
Château Pontet-Canet
France – November 2023 – Part 1 – Royal
The next four posts will deal with my yearly trip to France with my friend David Raccah of the Kosher Wine Musings blog. I have to say – this was a VERY hard trip to make. Until the day before I left, I was considering canceling due to the situation in Israel and feeling that … Continue reading France – November 2023 – Part 1 – Royal
RCC Israel # 44 – Adar 5783
I have a number of posts that I am behind on – and I hopefully will get to them over the next week or two. But, as always when Rosh Chodesh rolls along, I need to stop what I’m doing and get the RCC post out, and even that is behind due to work commitments … Continue reading RCC Israel # 44 – Adar 5783
RCC Israel # 31 – Tamuz 5779
RCC Israel Tamuz 5779 marked the first time we moved out of our comfort zone and experimented with using a new chef (Bracha is traveling this summer and Uri had a baby boy last week). The chef in question - Avi Katz. Avi works as a chef professionally most recently at the David Citadel Hotel. … Continue reading RCC Israel # 31 – Tamuz 5779
Yossie Comes for a Visit
As I have written previously, it's really nice when friends from abroad join us either for RCC's or to get together for tastings or winery visits or really whatever. One of the people I enjoy spending time with is Yossie Horwitz. Besides writing his weekly newsletter and FB page, Yossie is of course perhaps most … Continue reading Yossie Comes for a Visit
RCC Israel #19
This was a very interesting night with one of our best wine lists ever. We ended up with a very international list (minus any American entries) - and each region showed beautifully. The food of course was excellent. Bracha and Uri continue to put out inventive and tasty dishes month after month. While Uri rarely … Continue reading RCC Israel #19
RCC Israel # 14
Crazy night this was. The food rocked as always thanks to Uri Zaltzman & Bracha Arnold. My thanks to Penina & Jack Kustanowitz for hosting an unruly bunch of drunks. And the wines - well first the bad - we had 4 flawed bottles 2 of which were corked (TCA) and 2 of which probably … Continue reading RCC Israel # 14