Samson

The coastal plain and foothills between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the historic cradle of modern Israeli wine.

Country

Israel

Climate

Mediterranean, warm coastal plain

Main varieties

Cabernet Sauvignon · Carignan · Petite Sirah · Colombard

The region includes Rishon LeZion, where a winery founded in the 1880s became, for decades, the principal source of kosher wine for Jewish communities worldwide.

The climate is warmer and more humid than in the hills, which historically shaped the wine profile: fuller and softer, and through much of the twentieth century largely sweet, aimed at ritual use in the diaspora.