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Culture How the Manischewitz gets made — a behind-the-scenes taste of America’s most iconic kosher wine
For the syrupy Concord grape wine to be kosher, it all has to be made over the course of one, single week, known as 'Kosher Crush'
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Food An L.A. doctor revives the tradition of Persian Jewish winemaking
Wine flows freely in the ancient story of Purim, which takes place in ancient Persian. Buzzed on wine, King Ahasuerus asks the beautiful Vashti to come party. At two other wine-soaked feasts, the heroine Esther sways the king against the evil Haman. Wine all but disappeared from modern-day Iran following the country’s takeover by Muslim…
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Food Mechaia wine blends Italian grapes with a Yiddish name
Yiddish was spoken in Howard Paul ’s home until he was 5. That’s when “my father was explaining to a friend some stupid thing I did, and I turned and said to him, I understand what you’re saying. And that ended Yiddish as his code language.” Fitting then, that the East Bay winemaker has a…
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News Nothing but rosé? Climate change is already threatening these kosher and Jewish winemakers
Jeff Morgan was thinking about the cabernet sauvignon grapes he bought this fall in Pope Valley, near Napa. “I’ve been sourcing grapes from this particular vineyard for I’d say almost 20 years,” said Morgan, co-founder of Covenant Wines. “And I’ve never had an issue with water before. We’ve always had enough water to get through…
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News A kosher winery creates a prayer space during COVID-19
The crush is in full swing in Northern California, which in the age of COVID-19 means one thing for the congregants of Congregation Beth Israel: time to leave the parking lot. For months beginning last spring, about 20 men and women from the region’s largest Orthodox synagogue would arrive at the large parking lot of…
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Food Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, mead makes a comeback
Mead is back. Rachel Lipman, a fifth-generation winemaker at Loew Vineyards, believes that the honey wine’s heyday is just around the corner. It’s a “very underrated” beverage, said Lipman, at the Mount Airy, Maryland winery owned by her grandfather Bill Loew. Before World War II, Lvov (formerly part of Poland, currently now part of Ukraine)…
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The Schmooze Shabbat Shalom! The SNL Lady Squad’s ‘Wine Country’ Movie Is On Netflix
Rosé pri hagafen, everybody. “Wine Country,” a mid-life crisis comedy starring Jewish actresses Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph, as well as Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer and Paula Pell, dropped on Netflix on Friday, like the Shabbat Bride alighting. The bad news: Reviews suggest that this will not be the next “Bridesmaids.” The good…
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