The next day we had to be on the road again by 7:00 so that we could meet the Grinspoons by 9:00 at the Kinneret. We needed to catch up to Dani, and we wanted to spend the day touring with them. We followed them (and their tour guide) around the Golan stopping at the Golan Winery, Har Bental, Braichat Ram and the Banyas. It was unbelievable. At 200m below sea level on the shore of the Kinneret the weather was very comfortable. At our second stop on top of Har Bental, at 1000m, with a view of Mount Hermon and Syria, it was freezing cold -- and we were not dressed appropriately. There was even a little bit of snow left on Har Bental.
But back to the winery. The kids were not expecting much, and they somewhat groaned through the promotional movie -- as did I. The next stop of the tour was a huge room with hundreds of barrels where the wine ages. That was a little better. The next stop was the factory, where the bottles are washed, filled, corked, and packaged. This was fascinating. It was really fun to watch all the machines do their stuff. And there were even a few manual steps. (Kind of like the opening scene in Laverne and Shirley...). And then to top it all off, we had a wine tasting. Dani, Margalit, Sloan, Reid and Yaddin, were happy to try a few glasses of wine, and it put them in a good mood for the next few stops.
