With the Jewish holidays starting, I’ve been reading a lot about kosher wines, which have made major strides over the last several decades to overcome their reputation as the sickly sweet tipples of yesteryear’s blessings. As a case in point, a kosher wine—the Carmel Winery Kayoumi Single Vineyard Shiraz 2008 beat some of the world’s most renowned syrah and shiraz producers at the Decanter World Wine Awards last week in London.
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