KOSHER WINE TASTING WEDNESDAY APRIL 13, 2016
EVERGREEN COMMUNITY CENTER
For many American Jews, Manischewitz wine is as much as part of Passover as the four questions and matzoh ball soup. As if making good wine isn’t hard enough under normal circumstances, throw in a ton of religious laws to follow and you may just say “oy vey” and grab a bottle of Manischewitz for your Passover Seder. Fortunately, drinking kosher wines no longer means sweet Concord grape juice. Today’s kosher wines offer a level of quality and selection that will surprise you and your matzo ball soup.
So where is the incentive to produce better kosher wine? The promise of Israel’s Mediterranean climate recently got notice in the form of 90 + scores from wine goy Robert Parker. Other countries, too, have taken on the challenge of producing (or rather, directing the Jewish winemakers to produce) kosher wine as good as the secular stuff. Now, America, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy and Spain all produce very good kosher wines and several Bordeaux chateaux have even added kosher wines to their lineups.
There's no inherent reason why kosher wine has to be lackluster (or Mogen David) since the process for making it is very similar to the standard wine making process. And just as kosher and Israeli food has become far more sophisticated over the last generation, so has the wine industry.
Join us at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at the Evergreen Community Center for a tasting of six kosher wines. AWS Certified Wine Judge, Kym Antonelli will be presenting.
But remember, "A Seder without sweet Manischewitz would be like horseradish without tears, like a cantor without a voice, like a shul without a complaint, like a yenta without a big mouth, like Passover without Jews." - Comedian Jackie Mason (1936 - )
L’chaim!
PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR WINE GLASSES.
We will taste six wines.
The cost for members is $25 and the cost for guests is $30.
Please reply before April 6, 2016 to:
Mail your check, payable to AWS to:
Dr. Dennis Trumble
1302 Arch St
Pittsburgh PA 15212
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