11.   It is also increasingly good news for consumers, because kosher wines are no longer necessarily sweet and heavy or made from Concord grapes.

12.   Israel has made a start in kosher wines.

13.   Kosher wine was replaced by Cabernet Sauvignon.

14.   Kosher wines can be as expensive as any other category.

15.   Kosher wines need not be of the sweet and cloying variety, however, as has sometimes been the tradition.

16.   Kosher wine was mostly limited to sweet stuff.

17.   Kosher wine can be made only by observant Jews following exacting standards of purity under close rabbinical supervision.

18.   Many older observant Jews remember the days of sweet kosher wines that tasted like Concord grape juice with alcohol.

19.   Modern rules for making kosher wine include setting aside equipment exclusively for the making of those wines.

20.   Stern was hired to help create what would become the first kosher wines available in the United States that were not sweet and syrupy.