Tim Graham/Getty Images Modern vineyards can also thank wine-media ratings for their exorbitant prices: A so-called “wine of the year” may see its value triple or quadruple as a result of the ...

This was 2,600 years ago! Ramat Arad, the first modern vineyard in the Negev, was planted in 1988. The first Negev wine in the modern era was a Carmel Merlot from the 1992 vintage. The vineyard is ...