How Kosher Wines are Different From all Other Wines?

Sep 10
06:50

2008

Marcia Henin

Marcia Henin

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The difference between kosher wine and non-kosher wine and the way the Jewish people consider wine in their culture.

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According to Judaism,How Kosher Wines are Different From all Other Wines? Articles the Passover Seder dinner of the Jews falls in the month of April and the dates keep changing. The reason why there is no proper fixation of dates is that the Jews calendar is a lunar calendar.

The Jews celebrate Passover Seder dinner to celebrate the freedom of Jews in Egypt. The Passover Seder dinner is a grand and symbolic enactment of the Moses’s story. During the feast, the Jews need to answer four questions about Judaism. The Jews people serve the dinner in a very symbolic and ritualistic manner.

Reasons for Being Different:

One of the rituals that Jews follow during the Passover Seder dinner is drinking the traditional kosher wine. There are many types of kosherwines available in the market. However, the wine used for the Passover dinner is the KosherPassoverwine. KosherPassoverwine is prepared from the Concord grapes. However, the wine is now sweet in taste.

According to the rituals of the Passover dinner, it is a compulsion that a celebrant Jew needs to drink around four glasses of KosherPassoverwine. Kosherwines are those wines prepared by people, who observe the Sabbath tradition. These people handle the entire wine making process. To make a wine kosher, the wine making process needs to follow the kosher law.

However, there are two wines, which are kosher yet their preparation procedures differ. The first is the Mevushal, which literally means to boil in Hebrew and the second is the non-Mevushal. If a non-Jew serves a glass of non- Mevushal to another person or even touches the bottle, it becomes a non-kosher wine. On the other hand, any individual irrespective of his/her religion may use and handle the Mevushal wine.

In recent times, the quality of these wines has improved tremendously. The reason for this is that many winemaking companies of Israel and the United States have collaborated to offer better wines using the kosher law. However, it is a U.S. collaborated project, the wine making procedure remains the same according to the kosher laws. Due to these reasons, kosherwines differ from other wines.

These days, kosher wines are available in all types – from kosher red wine and Kosher white wine to Kosher Champaign and blush/ Rose wine.