Kosher Wine 101 2.0 and my rebuttal to many poorly written articles on kosher wine
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FYI all information in the article you quote from Catavino is 100% correct for the winery and the method they make the wine in Spain. We were attacked when we wrote this by many people who told us we were wrong, until we got a public apology from both Daniel Rogov and one other Rabbi who had initially called us out.
Turns out there are some “extreme” kosher practices out there, and in Capçanes they practice this. Including the fact that you are NOT allowed to even see the wine. If you go there you will see it in person. All tubes wrapped in tape to ‘hide the wine’.
When this first was published my wife and I were attacked by the Kosher wine community and eventually received a full apology when they all realized we reported 100% correctly, and the winery+rabbi’s in Spain were just following this insanely strict idea of what kosher was is.
I have not been back sense, so I cannot say if they still do follow this, but I do not see any reason they would have changed.
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Hello!
I was not commenting on the tubes being wrapped – that is a chassdic requirement that is weird but they do it. What I was commenting on, and is not correct was the usage of the rules that you took from Daniel Rogov’s (god bless his memory) book, about the kosher laws. The Shmitta law and tithing law do not pertain to land outside of Israel. That was what I was disagreeing with and I still disagree with. Daniel wrote his book for wines made in Israel. Capcanes, is not in Israel and therefore does not have these extra laws.
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If you read the comments section you’ll see the full story. Here is one response from Daniel:
Daniel Rogov comments the following, after checking with the owner of Capcanes:
Received a second email from Jurgen Wagner of Capcanes. Indeed, the policy is that none other than Sabbath observant Jews may physically see the wine until it has been bottled.
As I have said earlier, this policy does not reflect at all negatively on the quality of the kosher wines of Capcanes but it does reflect on whomever it is advising them to this effect. By the same logic it would seem that when opening a bottle of kosher wine one would have to request that all non-observant Jews and all non-Jews turn their backs until the wine is poured. The question then remains, once the people have turned around and seen the wine, does that thus make it non-kosher?
With apologies to rabbis and mashgichim the world over, this has got to be one of the most truly idiotic policies I have encountered in my not all that short life.
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does Kosher wine have any alcohol in it if not why does it have a high effect?
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Yes, kosher wine like most wine has alcohol. The alcohol comes from fermenting the sugar in the grapes, so it is innately kosher from that perspective.
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