Binyamina Winery Tour

Knowing me, you probably are aware of my affinity for all things wine, so naturally, I was beyond excited to take a tour of the Binyamina Winery.  Oddly enough, I have never been to a winery before!  This particular one is kosher, so we were directed to not touch ANYTHING, for fear of contaminating the kosher-fied items related to wine making.  On the interesting side, seeing a winery supervised by a bunch of Rabbis was pretty cool!  We also learned that the winery doesn't actually grown it's own grapes - I thought they all did, but I guess with Israel's not so ideal climate, it's better to import the grapes from elsewhere.  Then came the best part of the day...the tasting!  Now, as this programming always goes, we were with a pretty large group, so it was quite the balagan (Hebrew for "mess" which basically can be used to describe most of the daily situations here).  The wine, however, was delicious!  So tasty, in fact, that I purchased two bottles of red wine to take home with me.  Score!  Also on winery day, we stopped at some botanical gardens, and although I wish we had more time to explore, I still managed to make an impromptu attempt at some "artsy" photo shoot.  Cheers!