 Welcome back to my YouTube channel, this is Daniel Rossell here bringing you today's video another interesting locality in the greater Jerusalem area. I'm here outside of the Katlav winery, which is one of the original boutique wineries here in Israel. They've been making wine and are producing wine, higher end wine slightly since 1998, so about 25 years in the wine business and their tasting room that I'm standing outside is located in the beautiful scenery just outside of Nez Haareem and this is something I'm always saying the areas around Jerusalem, whether you go west out to the Jerusalem hills or these areas in the south are just absolutely magnificent, so beautiful. You get outside of Jerusalem, which is crowded city of a million people, space is very tight, lots and lots of traffic and you just come to these areas that are just fantastic therapeutics, so if you're visiting Jerusalem and you have a car, definitely recommend checking out a couple of the wineries in this area. So this particular winery, the Katlav winery, they have a wonderful tasting room and the tasting experience operates from Sunday to Thursday, roughly during normal Israeli business hours 10 to 6 and then on Friday reduced hours of 10 to 1. The cost when I came here today was at 90 shackles and that gets you four different wines. Pretty high end wines, they're aged in the bottles for a minimum of 24 months, some of them for longer. Their wines on the retail market started at about 129 shackles for their popular Nez Haareem blend and they go upwards from that. So the tasting experience, it's a lovely sort of a wooden tasting room. You don't get the usual wine lecture about how the wine is made, which I think if you've been on a few wine tastings in Israel, it's fine to skip over that. Instead, you get to just focus on enjoying the wine, enjoying the cheese that they have there as well and savoring of course these wonderful views and there's a wood fired furnace operating the background as well. So especially if you visit in winter time, you get that kind of nice charred, slightly smoky air that complements the smoky cheese and complements the wine and it's all part of the experience. This winery as I mentioned, located just outside of Nez Haareem and as I mentioned, founded in 1998. This is a community outside of Jerusalem that was founded by Jewish immigrants actually from Kurdistan and Morocco. The family operating this winery, the winery is a guy called Yossi Yiftah. Now, something interesting that they mentioned was that his parents growing up in Morocco, of course, being a Muslim country where alcohol is prohibited, they used to make wine for their Shabbat meals from raisins and actually always dreamed of the day when he could come to Israel, move to Israel and begin their winemaking journey and do it openly. And they've certainly achieved that mission. Katlab winery outside of Jerusalem, the tours are 90 shackles. They sell wine from their website mostly on the Israeli market. No distributors yet in the US but you can buy it from their website which I will put a link to in the description. Personally, I can't get enough of tasting experiences, wine tasting experiences in Israel but if you have access to a car, this is certainly one that's worth tracking out to, not just for the view, also for the wine. Hope this video was interesting. If you want to get more videos from me about life in Jerusalem and Israel, do consider subscribing to the YouTube channel. Thank you for watching.