Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Domaine du Castel


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The result was keep. John254 03:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Domaine du Castel

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I'm not sure about this one, the company does have some google hits but not many, and this company is 'located in an old chicken coop' it seems rather NN to me. Harland1 (t/c) 10:54, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep You are mistaken. It is not located in a chicken coop, being made like moonshine; it converted a chicken coop into it's building.  This is not all that uncommon is Israel.  In fact the original Israeli supreme court building was located on top of a chicken coop.  The winery is now generally considered to be the second best (after golan winery) in Israel (though there are much larger producers of wine). (NOTE: I am the creator of this article). Jon513 (talk) 11:04, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wine-related deletion discussions.   —Nirztak (talk) 11:56, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * OK but there doesn't seem to be much coverage in reliable secondary sources that I can find, if maybe you could add some to the article then it would be fine. Harland1 (t/c) 12:04, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * from : "Castel has repeatedly been recognized by international critics. Ben-Zaken's wine is the first Israeli wine selected as wine of the month by Decanter, the world's premier wine magazine. It is also the first Israeli wine to receive 90 points in Wine Spectator, and the only Israeli wine listed in the French Betteane & Desseauve's The World's Greatest Wines, where is it favorably compared to the best French wines. It is also the first Israeli wine to be awarded three stars by the wine writer Hugh Johnson (which it has received consistently since 2004)."
 * also an article in the The New York Sun mentions it. A full article about them. Also mentioned at the end of this article.  Almost every major wine database has an entry for Domaine du Castel, and have positive reviews. Jon513 (talk) 12:22, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Also this google news search shows a lot of articles for which Domaine du Castel was the subject. Jon513 (talk) 12:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep – Found numerous and verifiable sources as noted here and here .. Shoessss |  Chat  14:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - Above entries have shown this winery to be at least mentioned/having its wine rated in leading international wine journals (WS & Decanter is 2/3 of what is probably the world's top trio), and the article has a reference to a quite notable wine blog, written by a "real author" in the wine field. In my mind, this is quite enough to establish a winery's notability irrespective of the exact number of Google hits. Tomas e (talk) 22:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions.   —Shuki (talk) 09:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Fine I think that we can close this as keep now then? Harland1 (t/c) 09:59, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If you have changed your mind then it can be closed now. Jon513 (talk) 10:16, 1 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep (redundant), more RS could be listed, but the nominator seems convinced and a speedy keep is probably imminent? M URGH   disc.  15:18, 1 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.