If you’re visiting a Jewish home for Passover or any other festive occastion, it might be a good idea to pick up a bottle of kosher wine. There’s more to kosher wine these days than Manischewitz or Kedem; it’s a rapidly growing sector of the market that includes fine wines from all over the world.
The Expanding Kosher Wine Market
In 2007, the “Kosher” designation edged out “All Natural” and “No Additives or Preservatives” to become the most popular claim found on new consumer food products in 2007, says Mintel’s Global New Products Database, which monitors packaged goods worldwide. Still, it's hard to find any article about kosher wine that doesn't start off by exclaiming that u201Cit ain't just Manischewitz anymore.u201D
But you may already know that sophisticated/enjoyable/delicious – even award-winning – kosher wine is being produced in regions as diverse as France, Israel, California, Australia, Spain and South Africa. Perhaps you even know, thanks to folks like Nextbook's Sara Ivry, what makes wine kosher and when kosher wine started catching up to its nonkosher counterpart.
April 1, 2009
