10 Recipes For Leftover Manischewitz - What Jew Wanna Eat (2024)

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What can you do with Manischewitz? ›

The wine goes wonderfully with roasted meats with fruit sauces or paired with berry based desserts. All Manischewitz Wines are made and bottled under the strict Rabbinical supervision of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.

All Manischewitz Wines are made from grapes, except Blackberry and Cherry, which are fruit wines made from berry concentrate.

All Manischewitz wines, except Elderberry and Cream Peach are offered as Kosher for Passover year-round. Please check the label to verify the wine is Kosher for Passover.

Jewish immigrants made wine from what they could get, like Concord grapes, which were cheap and local. The wine they produced had a long shelf life, and it also had to be sweetened to make it palatable; if you kept kosher and you wanted wine, for a long time Manischewitz was what you got.

There are several varieties of Manischewitz wine, but I assume you're asking about the sacramental kind. It's very rich and very sweet. To me , it tastes like alcoholic grape juice.

Every year for Passover, my family stocks up on red wine for the Seder. We always get a bottle or two of grape Manischewitz, but mostly for tradition. It isn't something my family personally loves to drink on its own because of the strong flavor.

Manischewitz boasts a global export market

The sweet and affordable wine, costing an average of $5 for a 750-milliliter bottle, has gained popularity on a global stage.

Most wines can last up to 3 to 4 days after being opened, as long as you put the cork back in the bottle and refrigerate it or store it in a cool place. If the wine stays open too long, the flavor and texture of the wine will go flat. Wine has a very short shelf life after it's been exposed to oxygen.

First produced in New York City more than 70 years ago, Manischewitz for decades was the only kosher wine consumed by many Jewish families. The New York-grown grapes used to make the wine have a bitter taste, so Manischewitz adds corn syrup or sugar to give the wine its hallmark sweetness.

Is Manischewitz made in Israel? ›

Manischewitz, in fact, is made in Naples, New York, more than 5,700 miles from Tel Aviv.

At shabbat dinners, seders, or some other Jewish dinner, we will drink wine and manischevitz is the most popular.

Coca-Cola is certified kosher year-round, but its high-fructose corn syrup renders it unfit for consumption on Passover. co*ke actually used to be made with sucrose (made from cane or beet sugar) instead of high-fructose corn syrup, but when the switch was made, Coca-Cola sodas became off-limits on Passover.

"It doesn't have to be the most fancy sparkling wine since you're mixing it with Manischewitz," Israel advises. The recipe: Pour 3/4 ounce of Manischewitz into a Champagne flute, and top it off with sparkling wine or Champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist. Next year in Jerusalem; this year with Manischewitz.

Manischewiz is a sweet concord grape wine that's typically kosher for Passover. Like many things in life, the Passover tradition of drinking the saccharine, syrupy "wine" can be improved with liquor.