Shmitta…No pruning, no plowing. The wine belongs to all. We started with 1200 kilos of grapes from Netiv Avot and 700 kilos from Susya. The press began erev Yom Kippur. By Rosh Chodesh Shvat, after the second filtering, we had 490 and 330 liters. After Pesach we bottled about 1000 bottles total. Today, erev Pesach […]
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Mar 28, 2017 
2009- Merlot
The harvest was on the 23rd of Elul (relatively late) and we were blessed with 100 kilograms of grapes. As we bottle some of the wine the day before Purim we had a total of 74 liters of wine. The remaining bottling process was conducted in honor of our daughter Gavriel Miriam’s wedding to Shlomo […]
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Merlot-2014
On the 2nd of Elul we began crushing the 900 kilograms of merlot grapes from our Netiv Avot vineyard in Gush Etzion. On the 16th of Elul we harvested and crushed 800 kilograms of our Susya merlot. We merited the special help of yeshiva boys from the Eitz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem (Rabbi Mendel Horowitz). At […]
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2013 - Merlot Netiv Avot
On the 5th of Tishrei, Meni Gertler from Nativ Avot brought us 480 kilograms of his organic merlot. Wine bottled from this year (and future years, G-d willing), went out to the public with the label “Oz V’Anava”, representing Weiss-HaLivni’s Nativ Avot merlot. These bottles can also still be purchased.
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2013 - Merlot
This year we made wine from both our original field in Susya as well as another 3 dunams of merlot that reached its 4th birthday (thus being permitted according to Jewish law). So, we are talking now about a total of 500 vines of merlot in Susya. A week before Rosh HaShana we harvested the […]
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Cabernet Sauvignon - 2012
On the 27th of Elul Meir Deirlicht of Susya brough to us 200 kilograms of organic, cabernet sauvignon. Unfortunately, this would be the last year that we would merit to make wine from this vineyard as the local arabs uprooted the vineyard later that year. At press time, we had 139 liters of cabernet. A […]
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Merlot - 2012
We harvested our merlot on the 19th of Elul with a brix level around 24. We had enough grapes to fill-up 520 liters of stainless steel vats. On the same day we also received for the first time organic merlot grapes from our friend Meni Gertler in Nativ Avot, Gush Etzion (100 kilograms). At the […]
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Meir Merlot - 2011
Also on Rosh Chodesh Elul, our friend Meir Deirlicht from Susya, requested that we make wine from his 50 kilograms of organic, cabernet sauvignon grapes. Two days before Rosh HaShana we pressed and in the end we received 16 bottles of a straight cabernet sauvignon and 71 bottles of a merlot-cabernet blend. Although both wines […]
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Merlot - 2011
On Rosh Chodesh Elul we harvested our vineyard in Susya with a brix level ranging between 24 to 29. We were blessed with 255 kilograms. On the 15th of Elul we pressed and continued fermenting. We filtered naturally (as usual) three times until the bottling procedure. In the end, we merited 140 bottles of merlot, […]
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Merlot - 2010
With high brix in the field hovering around 25, we harvest on the 16th of Elul. A respectable quantity of 220 kilograms began primary fermentation that lasted 11 days till Erev Rosh HaShana when we pressed. On Erev Purim we bottled all 156 bottles of wine (just enough for the chag). 15 bottles were happily […]
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