A new Sonoma label is aiming at the top shelf. R. Degen Wines, from co-founders Adam Goldsmith and winemaker Mark Gamache, has released its first vintage, a chardonnay and a pinot noir from Porter Creek Vineyard in the Russian River Valley, both certified kosher for Passover by the Orthodox Union. Goldsmith says he wants to pour a wine and not even have to say it is kosher, and have people enjoy it anyway. That is the whole point, and it is the same ambition that has driven Covenant, Hagafen and Herzog to change what kosher wine means.
The wines are strictly non-mevushal, so Rabbi Mendel Wenger of Chabad of Sonoma Valley is the only person who can touch the wine or the equipment, from pressing through bottling. The label honors Goldsmith's grandfather Richard Degen, a Holocaust survivor whose portrait as a young man appears on every bottle. The chardonnay is $65 and the pinot noir is $80, sold direct from the winery, with a release party planned for December 8 at Township Sonoma. Read the full story in J., The Jewish News of Northern California.
Read the full article: https://jweekly.com/2026/11/09/uncorking-kosher-a-new-sonoma-label-wants-to-play-with-the-big-boys/
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