The Winemaker | Rabbi Naftali Reich

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Rabbi Berel Wein shared with me that at the very beginning of his illustrious career, he was a Kashrus director at the OU. And there was a very prominent winery in Upstate New York that wanted to make a run of Kosher wines, and they contacted the OU. Rabbi Berel Wein went up there to introduce them as to what it would entail to make a Kosher run of wine. He sat in the boardroom with the executives. They were fascinated to hear exactly the details of Kosher wine. And as they left the boardroom to give him a tour of the winery, the chief winemaker came out of his beautiful office and he said to the executives, You go back to the office. Let me give the good rabbi a tour of the winery. Well, they went around and Rabbi Wein noticed that wherever they went, this chief winemaker was accorded great respect. The various workers were coming over to him with glasses with wine from different vats and different barrels, and he gave them a little swish and a little taste, and he determined whether

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