What is kosher wine?

Kosher what does that mean?

What is a kosher wine? What is a wine Mevushal?

How do I know if a wine is kosher?

What does the word kosher?

 

Easy baby easy. Let's start easy.

 

The word kosher means fit. So its meaning food or drink to be able to eat according to the laws of the Bible (Old Testament Torah). This kosher food, fit, is certified by the rabbinical authorities, but no confusion is not blessed.

 

What is kosher wine? What is a wine Mevushal?

 

The wine special strict rules that are unlike any other kosher food: kosher wines must be created, bottled, opened, handled and paid only by Jews. If a non-Jew handles or touches the wine - for example, pours a glass of wine, or pass the bottle - the wine becomes non-kosher.

The grapes of new vines can be used for making wine, until the fourth year. Then every seventh year, the fields must be left fallow. All equipment, tools and wine storage facilities must be kosher. At harvest, only Jewish men observing the Sabbath are allowed to work on the production of wine.

During the production of kosher wine, no animal products may be used. Gelatin or egg whites are sometimes used by manufacturers of non-kosher wine, to clarify the wine, while the kosher wine makers use a clay material (bentonite) that pulls the suspended particles to the bottom of the barrel.

Same no oxblood dress to give the wine as is sometimes the case in certain non-kosher wines.

Finally, in memory of the 10% gave to the Temple of Jerusalem by our ancestors (the Maasser), 1% of the wine produced must be destroyed.

Complicated kosher wine is not it? !

Solution: kosher wine Mevushal

One can imagine the arguments that conflict now because of the proximity of Jewish and non-Jewish communities. Imagine a non-Jewish guest bringing you a bottle of kosher wine that you cannot drink with him. For this reason and for the sake of peace, our sages made an exception: the kosher wine Mevushal, mevuchal.

This is a wine that is heated briefly to a boil. Technically the wine is very high speed in a white-hot pipe and brings the wine to a boil. This causes air bubbles that are brought to the surface and the loss of some of the wine. The result is that the wine retains its Mevushal retains its religious purity and can be handled, opened and served by non-Jews.

Does the mevushal process affect the wine’s taste? Surprisingly no, it is undetectable even if you do not know. Many experts believe the opposite even were trapped in a study conducted at the University of California at Davis has proven that it is not possible to differentiate between non mevushal wine mevushal wine.

 

About Mevushal, here is the rule that many people ignore, including the alleged site specialists wines:

In Israel the rule is: By default all the wines are Mevushal. When they are not, a special mention appears on bottle such as ' NO MEVISHAL "

Outside Israel, it is the opposite, by default, all kosher wines are not mevushal. When they are mevushal, a special mention is onto the bottle.

 

How do I know if a wine is kosher?

 

How do I know who certified a bottle of wine? The bottle is marked with a symbol of an organization that certifies kosher food. It is for you to be vigilant and check the organizations or rabbi who certified the kosher wine exists. We will not lie to ourselves, scams of kosher wine exist so be careful.

Reliable kosher certification organizations may come from recognized anywhere in the world. Much of the wine in the United States is evidenced by the Jewish Union Orthodox: OK symbol (letter K in an O) OR symbol (the letter U in the letter O), that symbol you find on all windows Haagen Dazs that are hiding though)

A bottle of wine with the words "certified by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in a city is generally acceptable for most Jews