Alona winery

About Us

Alona Winery was established in 2001 by Ilana Rabau - Friedman and Micha Rabau, a couple of doctors, and by Fanny and Eli Azulai, second generation farmers for wine grape growers. All the processes of making the wine, from choosing the varieties, planting the vineyards and cultivating them, through the vintage, wine preparation to bottling is done by the families alone. The winery produces about 9000 bottles a year, and the wine production combines old and new world methods. The wine is aged for at least 12 months in French and American oak barrels and recently also the use of 2 500-liter barrels of Austrian oak. The wine is aged in both new and used barrels. In order to preserve the characteristics of the grapes and their complexity, the wine is bottled without shading processes after coarse filtration only. Alona Wines has won many awards in Israeli and international competitions and in 2007 the winery was chosen as the best small boutique winery in Israel.