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<font size=3>At 02:41 PM 7/23/2013, martin brody wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">All "best wine" is of
course personally subjective, but it cannot be something that has been
deliberately spoiled by cooking. Therefore, the best wine is
non-mevushal. That's what it means </font></blockquote><br>
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><br>
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><br>
There is another good reason to use mevushal wine. It prevents
problems when one has non-Jewish help like cleaning ladies.
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>There are many fine
sweet and semi sweet wines that are non-mevushal.
</font></blockquote><br>
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><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Pasteurised Grape
juice is NOT wine. It cannot ferment into a potable product. That people
enjoy that taste does not magically make it wine. That it is permitted by
poskim for sacramental purposes still doesn't make it
wine.</font></blockquote><br>
True. I never claimed that grape juice is considered wine.
YL<br><br>
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