Kosher Wine

90 points The Wine Advocate:The 2007 Chardonnay is another fascinating, if pretty pricey, Chardonnay from Castel. Taste this blind and let the aromas from the on-the-lees aging fill your nose. It seems like a dead Burgundy ringer. Unfined, unfiltered and rather smoky, this elegant and graceful wine seems very old world, very French, very Burgundy. The length on the finish is not perhaps Le Montrachet, but it is fascinating in most respects. Mark Squires

This low alcohol lightly sparkling dessert wine offers refreshing notes of citrus blossoms, grapefruit, guavas, and melons.

Hagafen Napa Valley Merlot has a nose of ripe plum, bright white cherry, Lincoln rose, sweet cardamom and vanilla.

94 points Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar:"Very pale yellow. Complex nose offers saline, herbal and spicy notes, with a minty coolness. Wonderfully subtle, complex and precise, with a distinctly ethereal quality, high-pitched minerality and superb lift. Finishes very dry and persistent, with lovely lift. This is made inside an igloo in Hokkaido, in Japan's extreme north, where below-freezing temperature prevents unwanted bacteria from surviving, thus ensuring a very pure sake. The clear sake is separated from the fermenting rice lees by putting it into canvas bags and allowing the sake to drip out overnight (as opposed to pressing it)."