We got up early in our great hotel and had a wonderful Israeli breakfast: Israeli salad - cucumber, tomato, onions; tabouleh salad, cheese blinzes, an on and on. It was great. Then we packed up to leave and drove up the mountain to see Ben's grandmother's house. Well, it turns out that Haifa has grown just a bit in 34 years. There was incredible traffic! Anyway, we found the house, and Ben enjoyed a few moments of nostalgia, and then we got going to meet up with his cousins, Ilana and Rani, who live in Kfar Tavor, which is a small town about an hour east of Haifa pretty close to the sea of Galilee. We had a hard time when we arrived because the number of the house goes with the neighborhood instead of the street. So we had to call Rani who came out in the street to find us!
We soon left with them on our adventure. We first went to visit a winery in their neighborhood and tasted some white wines, but we didn't get a tour. It is called Tavor. Then we went next door to the marzipan museum, actually, just the store. And there we bought lots of marzipan and chocolate covered raisins. Then we visit three more wineries in neighborhoods around them, but on the way, we saw many, many olive trees - is that an orchard? - and we stopped to touch and photograph a 300 year old tree. The whole area around here is farmland for olives and wines and other fruits and vegetables. After the olive tree, the first winery was was Rimon Winery, and it is wine made of pomegranates! We never heard of that, but these folks have been doing it for eight years. They also have a winery for wine made of grapes. Well, we tasted, and I really liked the sweeter wine and the port wine, and we bought that one. Then we went to Mils winery and Ben tasted the red wines. He thought the wine was pretty good, but he didn't buy any. The third winery was a bit more difficult to find, but it had very good wine, and Ben bought it. That winery was Ben Zimra. We really had fun with those.
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