Local Wine Events

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10th 7pm -- The Bottle Shop is hosting a horizontal AND vertical tasting of Margalit wines on Wednesday, March 10th with Israeli Wine Direct's founder Richard Shaffer -- super interesting direct-to-the-trade importer, btw. His company is getting these wines out of the kosher ghetto and in front of serious buyers and somms, etc. I don't know if you've encountered any of Yair Margalit's wines, but the he (and his son, Asaf) are bone-fide rock star winemakers and Yair is a PhD chemist to boot. Mostly Cab and Cabernet-based blends. And very rare at that. Margalit produces less than 1,700 cases annually.

Yair sent Richard at Israeli Wine Direct a case of library wines and, though we're not sure of it, we think this might be the first public vertical of Margalit of its kind done outside of Israel. I've seen the odd bottle or two of Margalit over the years, but I've certainly never seen this kind of power lineup.

We're capping the tasting at 13 people not including Richard and myself.

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2002 Margalit Cabernet Franc

2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006 Margalit Cabernet Sauvignon

2004, 2005 and 2006 Margalit Enigma

2006 and 2007 Margalit Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon