He is also a wine & spirits journalist and an experienced judge in international competitions such as Mundusvini, Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, Asian Wine & Spirits, Spirits Selection, Michelangelo and Vinitaly. Yair is known as wine broadcaster and writer contributing for 20 years to the main Israeli radio station Reshet Bet and The Israeli Wine & Gourmet Magazine – WINET. He is co-author and editor of The Comprehensive Guide to Israeli Wines, published in 2016 in Hebrew and English. The book was well received by the public and the trade. For his activity as journalist, Yair was awarded the decoration of Cavaliere by the President of Italy