Haim Gan, Sagi Cooper and Yair Koren are proud to launch The Comprehensive Guide to Israeli Wines: a quality guide, a first class tool for Israeli wine consumers and lovers in Israel and around the world. The guide was written in Hebrew and English and can be purchased at the Grape Man home and in selected shops. The Comprehensive Guide to Israeli Wines contains articles in the field of Israeli wine, short reviews of Israeli wine regions, Israeli wine and food pairing and more.

 The editors reviewed all of the wines received for tasting – more than 650 samples from 100 wineries and above. The Guide includes only wines which have scored 84 and up. The Guide contains information about every winery mentioned, winery grading, reviews of exceptional wines and a mark for every wine stated (on a 100 point scale).

·         Only 7 wineries were graded with the highest grade – 5 grape bunches – a grading based on multiple parameters, all of consumer importance: quality of the wines, variety, involvement of the winery in the Israeli wine scene and in the society, touristic importance, etc.

·         The wines of 18 wineries received a score of 91 points or more.

·         The highest score received was 94 points.

The winery which received the highest grades is the Golan Heights Winery, and the exceptional winery from the small scale production top of the top of Israeli wineries is Sea Horse Winery. Exceptional wines from every winery were awarded with short and comprehensive tasting remarks in addition to their scores.

About

Haim Gan – The Grape Man. Veteran wine persona, wine taster, judge and instructor; commissioner of wine competitions worldwide. Producer of TERRAVINO Wine Challenge.

Sagi Cooper –veteran wine journalist and critic, judge in wine competitions and member of international wine societies.

Yair Koren – veteran journalist, formerly a senior in The Voice of Israel Radio station, wine and alcohol critic, judge in international wine and alcohol competitions.

Recommended consumer price: 119 NIS.

To be obtained in wine shops, wineries, Guide website: thewines.co.il and at Grape Man website: grape-man.com (Hebrew page).