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T
ripping —
and tippling en
route — is not a bad way
to get around Israel. One
might recall, irreverently,
that Noah himself tippled a few
millennia ago (Genesis IX: 21...
"And he drank of the wine, and
was drunken") and may very
well have tripped — the pun is
intentional — before falling into
a deep slumber.
The consumption of wine may
have started even before Noah.
The Talmud speculates that the
"tree of knowledge," of whose for-
bidden fruit Adam partook,
might actually have been a
grapevine. And the wine there-
of has been humankind's drink-
of-choice ever since.
Thousand of years after
Adam, travelers can enjoy trip-
ping and drinking kosher wine
(more temperately than Noah,
one would hope) at its very
source, the land of Israel.
Visitors to such fertile, wine-
producing regions as Rishon le-
Zion, the oldest in the country,
will exult in the restoration of
ancient vineyards and the pro-
duction of wine in earth that has
lain fallow for centuries.
For, lo, the soil is barren no
more; there are now something
like 25 wineries, ranging from the
giant Carmel cooperative, based
at Rishon, with more than 1,000
grape-growing, wine-producing
members, to the tiny Har Meron
Winery, whose two entrepre-
neurs' "do-it-yourself' operation
accounts for some of the best wine
in the country, according to Is-
raeli oenophiles.
The wineries are located, for
the most part, in the northern
half of Israel, well within an easy
drive from one another or from
major sites of interest. In short,
tasting the many wine offerings,
and reciting a blessing over each
sample, is a memorable, and
highly recommended, approach
to sightseeing.
Such a trip-and-sip might well
start with the Cannel coopera-
tive in Rishon le-Zion, overlook-
ing the Mediterranean, south of
Tel Aviv. The town is a place of
considerable importance in mod-
ern Jewish history. "First in Zion"