News of the Day Kosher Wines Reappear in Germany Kosher wines are back in Germany after a 55-year gap in production. Gunter Schenkel, owner of the Schenkel winery in the small village of Schwabenheim, Rheinhessen, Germany, began marketing a Dornfelder and Rivaner, red and white respectively, this year. Although Schenkel is the owner of the wine property, the wines are made in accordance with Jewish Law under rabbinical supervision. For example, only sabbath-observant Jews can make the wines. The wines are called Nagile Rouge and Nagile Blanc.
Sales are already brisk in Germany.
Schenkel is now selling his wines in the United Kingdom and the United States, and he even plans to sell his wines in Israel. I have been inundated with phone calls from people saying how happy they are that Kosher wines are back on the market. The new CD, compiled by San Francisco-based recording company Gallery Records, is a collection of original intrumental compositions by such recording artists as pianist Jim Chappell and the band Checkfield. Chappell has sold over a million copies of his own records world-wide. The CD takes its cue from Chappell's smooth, supple style, hopefully mirrored in the wines it accompanies.