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
Don’t forget to visit the website for directions, useful tips,
and recipes.
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