Amphora Winery was founded in 2000 by Guy Rilov and winemaker Gil Schatzberg when the wine production was initially done in a shed on an indoor farm. It was only a few years ago that he moved to an impressive and spacious stone structure erected in the area of the entrance to the farm.
Since its establishment, the winery has undergone a process of constant renovations and improvement, as well as several ownership changes. Since 2016, winemaker Maayan Koshitsky has run the winery and Dr. Yuval Samuel joined during this time as an active partner in the winery and has since served as the winery’s new CEO.
Amphora Winery and its Indoor Farms maintain ecological reciprocity with the environment and operate in accordance with the values of belonging to the environment, minimal intervention and prevention of environmental pollution. The winery and farm are pioneers in the use of ecological processes currently applied in wine production and their involvement in energy saving and reduction of environmental pollution measures will increase in the future.
A solar energy system provides most of the winery’s electricity consumption (except during the peak period, at harvest time). In the future, an ecological cooling system will also be added to the system, based on the temperature differences between the ground and a depth of about one hundred meters. This move is expected to save about 50% of the energy consumption currently required for the winery’s cooling systems.
