Israel’s Galilee offers world’s first pomegranate wine
By Zev Stub September 10, 2006
If you’ve been to the supermarket lately, you’ve probably noticed that the hottest trend in the food industry is pomegranate products.
Several years before the trend got started, a family in Israel’s Upper Galilee region began working to create a tastier and healthier version of the ancient fruit, only to cross their way into yet another huge food market. Their product: the world’s first pomegranate wine fit to be sold to international wine connoisseurs.
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Gary Vaynerchuk just tasted this wine on Tuesday’s episode of Wine Library TV. Gary has done a good job of trying to bring in the Israeli wine to his show - how can you not since it’s so good! Now, this wine — which many argue because it’s not grape isn’t really wine — Gary says simply tastes like pomegranate and alcohol. Not for everyone, but it is healthy and if you like pomegranates, why not try the Rimon?Check out the full episode .
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Carol // November 21, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Bargetto Winery was making a pomegranate dessert wine in the late 70s and they’re reintroducing it. So technically this isn’t the world’s *first* pomegranate wine, but very cool nevertheless.
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