Jewish Journal   February 15, 2007  Just breathe: Herzog legacy
lives on with new wines   One of the &quot;barrel rooms&quot;
where the wines are aged. Photo courtesy Herzog Winery  One of
the "barrel rooms" where the wines are aged. Photo courtesy
Herzog Winery  When Eugene Herzog was driven from Czechoslovakia
by the communist regime in 1948, he was forced to leave behind
his wineries. With little money to his name and his family in
tow, he moved to Brooklyn and took a job at a small kosher
winery. But the types of wine they sold horrified him: sweet,
syrupy Concord grape, produced locally with lots of sugar to
raise the alcohol content.  As a vintner with experience in
kosher and non-kosher labels, Herzog knew real wine. After all,
his grandfather, Philip Herzog, had made wine for Emperor Franz-
Joseph, who had made him a baron.  By 1958, Eugene Herzog had
inherited the winery, calling it Royal Wines. The next few
decades were an era of sweet wine, with boldly unapologetic ad
campaigns such as, "Wine so swe