Apparently a lot of people think that just because a wine is Kosher or tastes a certain way, it can't be placed into a recipe. But, this just isn't so! Anything with alcohol and good flavoring which can add a layer of flavor can be added to food. It doesn't matter if it's a big dish like a casserole, or if it's a sauce like a Beurre Blanc - any wine can be utilized to create good layers! Two of the most popular Jewish wine brands such as Manischewitz wine and Kedem wine can be made with a varying amount of foods!

For example, the Manischewitz wine has a really great recipe for a cake. Yep. A cake! For this dish you would want to use the Cherry wine - it's going to have a superb cherry flavor, somewhat bitter, somewhat sweet. The cake is actually soaked in the wine - think of a rum cake, minus the rum! The Kedem wine has a pretty cool recipe as well that I saw online for a cheese fondue. Instead of using the usual white wine (Italian or French) or beer, you would replace it with the Kedem wine.

A good one to try would be something dry like a Chablis, white, and broad flavors. Just by looking online, I'm almost positive you can find dozens upon dozens of amazingly flavorful recipes using Kosher wine! So, for those who say these wines can only be drunk - you don't know what you're missing out on!

It’s hard to think of kosher wines and spirits without thinking of Kedem wine, a legendary brand with roots in both America and Europe. Also called The Royal Wine Company, this label currently operates two vineyards: Herzog Wine Cellars in Oxnard, CA and Kedem Winery in Marlboro, NY. The company's wines have been highly praised with top scores from critics, including a 92 out of 100 from Wine Spectator Magazine.

In addition to making kosher wine, The Royal Wine Company imports the same from a number of exotic countries, including Israel, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Argentina, Chile, and Canada. The company also stocks kosher spirits and grape juice.

The Royal Wine Company has been under the ownership of the notable Herzog family since 1958, but the Herzog clan’s experience with wine dates back much further. The family founded its first vineyard one hundred years earlier, in fact, in Czechoslovakia. This successful winery became the official supplier to Emperor Franz Joseph, the leader of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Herzog family’s winery was taken over by the Nazis during World War II, but the family survived the conflict in hiding and moved the business to the United States in 1948.

Kedem wine offers a proud legacy of meticulously produced kosher products, and you can browse a variety of cases and bottles right at www.OnlyKosherWine.com.

Considering a Jewish tradition and way of life that goes back for thousands of years and if all that time Jewish wine making has been part of that tradition, then kosher wine has got to be among the best made wines in the world! It is often said that God gave us wine to bring joy to men’s hearts and if used properly and not overused it is also great for one’s health. We offer only the finest quality Manischewitz wines, the # 1 kosher wine brand in the United States and Kedem wines from Kedem foods who are celebrating 50 years of producing great tasting kosher food and wines; as well as other kosher wines from all over the world.

From Israel, the United States, South Africa and Australia as well as France and Germany we offer a bountiful flavor of red and white nectar that is sure to please all tastes and give you the promised joy and health benefits that are not only traditional but scientifically proven.

So if you want to give your guests a marvelous wine to go with the dinner party or just want a wine for Shabbat, Purim or Passover Seder, visit our website and browse through our wide selection of kosher Jewish wines that come with all the benefits of a wine making tradition that goes back hundreds of centuries and is properly supervised by a posek rabbi or by a proper beth din. Remember, keeping kosher does not prevent good times, it only adds to it the heritage of a long history.

I am more of a fan of semi-dry white wines and have not yet had the pleasure of Jewish wines. I know that Manischewitz wines are most notable for being sweet wines - a quality that has been the subject of many jokes in comedy circles. The company that produces the wine is based in Naples, New York, but was founded in 1888 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The sweetness of the Manischewitz Jewish wine evolved from a practice of survival. Kosher wines do not necessarily have to be sweet. Often, they have been produced based on an earlier history of Jewish people in America.

Kosher wine had to be locally produced in order to be available for Kiddush (the recitation of blessings) during Shabbat (the seventh or resting day of the week that starts at sundown on Fridays and lasts until the stars are visible after sundown on Saturdays). Because the wine had to be produced quickly in most cases, the selection of flavors was limited to the grapes that were available or Jewish wine production.

Many of the grape varieties that grew where Jewish people settled were bitter. Sugar had to be added in order to make the wine drinkable. The Manischewitz brand of Jewish wine is a Concord wine made from labrusca grapes. It is used as communion wine and during Passover. Some Orthodox Jews will not drink Manischewitz wine during Passover because it is made with corn syrup, which is one of the forbidden foods of Passover according to some. Manischewitz makes a Passover brand of wine that is sweetened with cane sugar.