 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 they make all 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 wintertime 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 Yiftahko now something interesting that they mentioned was that his parents growing up in Morocco of course being a Muslim country where alcohol is prohibited used to make wine for their Shabbat meals from raisins and actually always dreamed of the day when he could come to Israel moves Israel and begin their winemaking a 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 at this is certainly one that's worth tracking out to not just for the view also for the wine hope this video is interesting if you want to get more videos from me about life in Jerusalem and Israel I do consider subscribing to the YouTube channel thank you for watching. Welcome back to my YouTube channel I'm here today in Ramat Negev winery it's located in Kaddish Barnea which is literally only about 250 meters from Israel's international border with Egypt the border fence which is a huge imposing 7 meter high metallic fence is located just literally a stone's throw in that direction as is Egypt so this is not the typical place where you'd expect to find a winery and it's notorious as the only boutique winery in Israel that produces wine in desert soil in that specific type of soil and these conditions to do so it uses some really advanced technology and it's wine which I have tasted is very very good it's one of the better known small wineries here in Israel so we're gonna go inside now take a tour and hopefully learn a lot more about how they managed to pull off this incredible feast of winemaking here in the Israeli desert. This is where they're fermenting the wine and alone here was saying that they're one of the larger of the smaller boutique wineries in Israel they make rose white wines and red wines and they're going price up to about 450 shackles despite a hundred and twenty dollars most of their wines are pretty reasonably priced actually more like sixty shackles or fifteen dollars. This is their exodus wine it's an excellent rose and these guys are gonna be at the Jerusalem wine festival next week which if you haven't been as amazing this place is located about one hour from Mitsperamon by car you drive through the desert it's really amazing they do tours here all the time so it's very recommended to come here. Welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rossell here bringing you another video today from a fantastic boutique winery in Israel hard to believe that only a few decades ago Israeli wine was not a major force in the wine drinking world now very firmly established as a new-ish terror. Where we are today is the Lana winery maybe hard to tell from the scenery just behind me here but I'm actually located in the heart of the Negev Desert which dominates the south of Israel and this winery is located just outside of Mitsperamon which is one of the southern towns in Israel the southern most southern most town in Israel is the city of Elat but there is another town called Mitsperamon a town of only a few thousand people actually started out as a camp for people building road workers constructing the road leading to southern Israel and today Mitsperamon is best known for the Matesh Ramon the craze the crater formed by a glacier movement that's in the area but this particular winery the Nana winery is located just off road 171 for those who've been really paying attention to what I've been uploading on this YouTube channel in the summer of last year I visited Gvish Esser road 10 which is the Israel-Egypt border road and the road leading down to that from Mitsperamon which is called which is road 171 is probably in all my expeditions in Israel the far reaches of the north of the country the south probably the most remote landscape I've seen you don't see power plants you don't see people there are stretches of kilometers where you don't see not you don't see anything leading all the way down to the intersection which Gvish Esser which is the Israel-Egypt border road now this this huge landscape here for producing wine is a lot more expansive than a than I mean it literally stretches for kilometers that way the people working on the wines are getting around in these kind of moped but they actually grow all the wine they produce here for their mixture of red wines white wines and rosé they don't use artificial yeast all the yeast that is of course an integral part of the winemaking process is what's just literally coming on the grapes from the air so therefore their wines change change taste a little bit depending on the year they're a bottle now speaking about bottling unfortunately they're not yet bottling on site here just outside in Mitspe Ramon currently the grapes they harvest they're shipping them all up to the north of Israel then doing the bottling there but this wine can be found throughout Israel and this winery the Nana winery which is named after the childhood nickname of the pioneer winemaker here is that well known its rosé is very well known I'm personally a bit of a rosé fan myself so might be a bias but certainly they make some very good rosé as well as the other the other types of wine the water supply here is coming from Mitspe Ramon and as I've said they've been in the winemaking business since 2007 and they're now selling both right Israel and directly to consumers also on their website the cost of the wine tasting like the wine tasting I did at Katlab a few days ago is 90 shackles approximately to about 20 US dollars at the time I'm recording this video and that'll get you three types of wine you can of course try a red wine or white wine and a rosé or you can focus on the type of wine that you're most into so you can have three different types of red wine if that suits your fancy more they do have a cheese plate for sale as any self-respecting wine tasting tour does and if you just located about ten minutes drive outside of Mitspe Ramon so if you are visiting the crater or just visiting Mitspe Ramon which is definitely worth a visit in its own right definitely worth that making the visit out here to check out the winery at Nana thanks for watching today's video from the Nana winery in the south of Israel if you do want to get more videos from me about interesting sites and places and hopefully forthcoming also people in Jerusalem and in Israel then do consider subscribing to the YouTube channel thank you for watching the video