Kosher wine! are in Bochum it for about two years of a synagogue. To be certain festivals of the community members with much success a "Open Day" is celebrated with tours of the beautiful buildings and a wide selection of kosher food. "
Now that the sorting out of some post-draft I came across a post that I wrote semi-finished long ago.
This inspired me to an article that I was in the "snail mail" -
sooner was the name Slow Food magazine - of 1997, on "Kosher wine."
Since there are many wine experts in the blogosphere, I've sat down with the author of the article, Mr.
Prof. Dr. H. Laberenz in Hamburg related to me to make sure that I can publish the report. And I can. Let me express my sincere thanks to him.
below that of his revised and authorized at 23:09:09 report in the reading, I hope you enjoy, but also a lot of new insights.
Kosher wine by Prof. Dr. Helmut Laberenz Two beautiful hand-blown wine glasses from Israel, each piece is unique, from wafer-thin glass, green, sparkling and cognac-colored, shimmering like mother of pearl discovered in a small, unassuming shop in the Ottenser main street in Hamburg. A bottle of "Rabbi Jacob", filled in Casablanca. A nice Christmas gift for a lover Have Israeli clean glassware. The glasses are wonderful to look at, the wine is dry and full bodied - not a big wine, but a good one. But what does 'kosher' on the label?
The view in the German Dictionary reveals "kosher" (Hebrew-Jidd.) Adj: according to Jewish dietary laws. " Jewish dietary laws. That's right, vague memories emerge. Observant Jews maintain a certain rules unkoschere food they do not take themselves - they would not taste them, excite and even disgust. In the novel "The Physician," I know something about how animals must be slaughtered so their meat is kosher. And where I've just read that meat and milk products are not combined be allowed? But when is wine, this heavenly beverage, kosher? Is there perhaps unkoschere and kosher grape varieties or special processing methods are in use?
a demand in the circle provides initial answers. Wine of the Promised Land is kosher, no matter what grape. And there will be wonderful droplets. But Morocco is not Israel, how can a wine be kosher or Casablanca? The debate goes on, the wine had to be a Jew, the barrels and the vineyards have to be blessed by a rabbi, probably by another buzz.
Certain conditions for the kosher wine are emerging rapidly. Thus, for new grape vines after the fourth year and harvested in every seventh year, the sabbatical year, waiving the reading so that the vines are nutritionally and organically regenerate.
Two months before the harvesting shall take place no organic fertilizer in the vineyards more, and all harvesting equipment and containers must first be thoroughly cleaned under the supervision of a rabbi. Any supply of enzymes and bacteria are prohibited in vinification, fermentation must be installed by those on the skin of grapes located, yeasts are excited. When filling is important to note that only paper filters are used, and that reinstatement of the bottles is prohibited. From one hundred bottled must be given the benefit of the poor, therefore can not be sold. Ironically
on 24th December arrives, the latest addition by e-mail from Jerusalem. It relies on an information of a professor from the "Jewish History Department," the Bar Ilan University, who is described as a profound expert in wine issues. After that, the crucial difference between kosher wine and unkoscherem is the religion of the wine-producing humans. The kosher wine is produced exclusively by Jews, and it can be used only by them. If a Christian, Atheist or Muslim open such a bottle, wine bottle from this drink, or even the open Bottle of touch, so the wine loses its kashrut, it is unkoscher.
The roots of this provision are in a time when religions are widely demarcated, assimilation, or even mixed marriages should be avoided by all means. Even sharing a bottle of wine at that time seemed too much of the approach. Traditional Jews are in the public and are now in doubt that they have served a closed and sealed bottle, which they themselves open and pour themselves out of it. Too bad, they are Jews and non-Jews can never be together empty a bottle of wine.
But wait, where is a will, there's a way - and if it is just a short cut is. If in fact boiled kosher wine, but he spoils - but it remains kosher. Served now other faiths such a "boiled" wine -
to drink, let us note, not in a sauce - then there is probably little risk to an intensive approach, or even assimilation. Who wants to "enjoy" such a potion already in good company? But Louis Pasteur
helps us further. Pasteurization is used by many Jews as equivalent to boil, even if the wine is not cooked it as such. Although the treated wine loses its flavor, but it is not completely inedible - and he is kosher, even if other faiths touch the open bottle or drink from it. A special process (flash pasteurization), it is possible these days to keep the flavor loss is very small. In the U.S. these wines (Caramel wines) are available apparently in good quality on the market that allow a common enjoyment of religious boundaries. Well, cheers!
PS: If you are traveling soon to the States, may contact me a glass of wine to my health Caramel empty - in any society.
Shalom! Not
last me
Tobias recalled with his 15th Kochevent Israel.
