<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">"I normally use Kedem's mevushal Concord Kal for Kiddush.
However, for the Sedarim I use the same wine, but it is not
mevushal. I taste no difference between the two, so I fail to
understand how at least for this variety you can say that the mevushal
type is "spoiled" by cooking.<br> YL"<br><br>Because Chazal tell us to spoil it. How? By cooking it!<br>Also are you sure that the non-mevushal variety is not cooked at all? Maybe like the grape juice non-mevushal it is cooked at a lower temperature that their posek suggests would qualify for mevushal?<br>
And also, no disrespect meant but Concord Kal is not considered a quality wine.<br>It is interesting why you reserve the non-mevushal for Pesach and not Shabbat. Any reason for that?<br>Martin Brody<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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"Furthermore, there have been times when I have cooked wine that was
not mevushal. (See below for the reason.) Once it cools and
is refrigerated, I taste no difference.<br><br>
Of course, I am not a connoisseur when it comes to wine. <br></div></blockquote><div>YL" <br></div><div><br>Clearly! <br><br>Martin Brody<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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"There is another good reason to use mevushal wine. It prevents
problems when one has non-Jewish help like cleaning ladies.</div></blockquote><div>YL"<br><br>Maybe. <br>But there are different shittas regarding non-mevushal wine and gentiles.<br>I take a lenient approach to this as I do everything else, except grape juice for Kiddush!<br>
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"True, but in light of the above regarding gentile help, it
seems to me that mevushal wine is to be preferred from a
"kashrus" standpoint. <br></div></blockquote><div>YL"<br><br>I can see why you would say that but I disagree.<br>In the United States, it probably now impossible to get non-mevushal wines in restaurants or catered functions.There seems to be no such problem in London, Paris and Antwerp for example, let alone Israel.<br>
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