Wine sales are starting to soar prior to Pesach as Israelis buy forty percent more wine in the month leading up to Pesach than they do the rest of the year. According to a poll released by Business Data Israel on Monday, results from 2006 showed that wine sales totaled $170,000,000. Israel produced 54 million bottles of wine last year, 4 percent more than the previous year.
Israel has 250 wineries in operation, including Carmel, Efrat, Binyamina, Barkan and Golan Heights, which account for nearly 85 percent of the grape harvest in the country.
Red wine controls 60 percent of the local market, and 51 percent of wine exports were shipped to the United States.
According to the report, Israelis prefer to purchase inexpensive wine, as 55 percent bought bottles of wine for 25 shekels ($6.00) or less.
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
6 Responses
mmmmmmm…….. Looking at the picture above, I was just wondering… why is that Carmel bottle opened? Was it good? Next time please… can we get a good looking fellow holding a bottle of wine, just like in the Coca Cola story. You’ll get loads of replies.
IT LOOKS LIKE, THE PRICES ARE SOARING HIGHER TOO
Great new Israeli wine company is YOGAV, its costly but so is any hiddur mitzvah.
does anyone know what the real mevushal status is on Israeli wines. Officially most do not say Mevushal, although the majority is pateurized.
Can someone shed some light?
to stan the man — its costly and a hiddur mitzvah ? since when is it a hiddur mitzvah to be ripped off ? a hiddur mitzvah is to pay a little more then you would for somthing else but this is getting out of hand… not to mention the price of the matzot, which also keeps going up and up and up, so if i pay 29 dollars for a pound of matzot and you only paid 23, does that mean that i was more mehader then you ?
Esrogim are the biggest profit makers (if you can get the distributors to tell you the price that they pay, about $15 for a mehudar) and the costs that are paid for a so called “hidur mitzvah” is OUTrageous.
You are correct that the prices rise for absolutely no reason, except for ripping off the kehilla, since we have no recourse.