Israel

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security announced an official map of Israel's wine regions in 2026. According to the Ministry's release, the map has eight major regions and eighteen subregions and is intended to describe growing conditions and allow origin statements on labels, not to create a PDO or PGI system. The release could not be reopened for this revision, and no other official source on the history of Israeli wine was opened, so earlier history is left out.

The map's major regions are the Golan, Galilee, Valleys, Carmel, Mountain Slopes, Coastal Plain, Central Highlands and Negev. The Ministry says the subregions reflect differences in elevation, temperature, precipitation, soils and closeness to the sea. No official figures for these factors were opened.

The Ministry's release presents the map as a description of growing conditions and of origin, not as a ranking of wine quality. It does not attribute particular wine characteristics to the regions, so none are given here.

Under the Israeli standard described by the Ministry, a winery may choose to state a growing region on the label if at least 85% of the grapes come from that region, subject to other requirements. The map does not rank quality or create protected origin names, and no Israeli wine names appear in the EU register. Grape varieties are not described in the source.