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Hagafen wines, I met Philip
Steinschreiber, who helped to
start Israel's Golan Heights
Winery, a cooperative that
makes wines under the Gam-
la, Golan, Mount Hermon
and Yarden labels.
The sandy-haired son of
concentration camP survi-
vors, Weir, a UCLA graduate,
worked for a year in psycho-
logy "when I realized I
wanted to do something else.
I traveled for a year in Europe
and became exposed to wine
— the way Europeans drink it
— and grapes."
"My father opened a wine
store, and I took some
courses and started buying
and selling," he says. Tiring of
retail, he pursued a master's
degree in enology at Califor-
nia State University in
Fresno.
"The timing was perfect. A
group in Israel was looking
for a Jewish winemaker to
start a winery from the
ground up," he explains. "I
started the pilot plant in
1983, and we produced 4,000
cases. Our Sauvignon Blanc
won a bronze medal at the
1983 International Wine
Show in London — the first
Israeli wine "ever to win a
medal" The next year produc-
tion was up to 20,000 cases,
and they took a silver medal.
Before leaving Israel with his
American wife, also a wine-
maker, Phil had started the
1984 Yarden Cabernet Sau-
vignon that won a gold medal
in London in 1987.
Ed Salzberg also went to
Israel with his American wine
education and expertise, but
he remained. Born in Wash-
ington, D.C. and raised in
Rochester, N.Y., he went to
California after high school,
"seeking the romantic ideal,"
he said. After graduating
from UC-Davis in 1975 with
a degree in fermentation
sciences, "pipe dreams of
developing my father's eight
acres in the Finger Lakes
vanished," he says. Instead,
he worked in Napa Valley
wineries and then upstate
New York, where he made
Wild Irish Rose.
Having visited Irael, he
made aliyah in 1980 with his
wife and two young daugh-
ters — their son was born
ther e . "Living in Israel has
helped me to develop as a
Jew," he says. "My life here
allows me to explore Judaism.
It's a good feeling."
Salzberg's first position
there was director of quality
control for Carmel, Israel's
largest wine producer and ex-
porter. Five years later, when
Baron Wine Cellars opened,
he was asked to become wine-
maker, "and I jumped at it,"
he said. "We have all ultra-
modern, stainless steel equip-
ment, and I'm involved in
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