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Golan Heights Winery takes Italian first prize

For the first time, the grand prize at Italy\’s leading international wine competition has been awarded to an Israeli winery. The Golan Heights Winery, founded in 1983 in Katzrin, beat out 3,720 wines from from more than 1,000 producers in 30 countries to take home the so-called \”Wine World Cup\” — the Gran Vinitaly Special Award granted ahead of Italy\’s annual Vinitaly wine trade fair in Verona, one of Europe\’s top wine events, which opens Friday.

Winemaker Brings Kosher to Oxnard

Fruity, oaky and sugary; I taste blackberries, vanilla and sugar, lots of sugar; full-bodied, strong finish, and very sweet; horrible and, yet again, very sweet. That was the kosher wine tasting of yesteryear.

Organic Experience

Bruce Cantz grew up in the San Fernando Valley, where he had a good Conservative upbringing and was bar mitzvahed at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino.

Now a baal teshuvah (returned to Judaism) who goes by his Hebrew name of Benyamin, Cantz, 54, lives on top of a remote mountain in Santa Cruz, where he runs Four Gates, the country\’s only organic kosher winery and the smallest, kosher winery in California.

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