Jonathan Tishbi Special Reserve Chardonnay Kosher 2023 750ml

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Winemaker Description

A full-bodied and fruity wine, with hints of apricot, melon and peach.

A combination of oak barrel fermentation and slow fermentation at low temperature in a stainless steel tank. The aging of the wine in oak barrels gives it aromas of vanilla, caramel and honey.

The Tishbi winery has a history that spans more than 120 years in Israel; one that intersects with many of the famous names of modern Israels short history. The story begins in 1882, when Malka and Michael Chemelitsky immigrated to the city of Shefeya at the foothills of Zichron Yaakov.

There they worked for the Carmel Wine Co-op that was founded by Baron Edmund de Rothschild in the late 1800s. They worked the land, planting vineyards, clearing rubble and stones, with nothing more than the barest of tools and technology. The work was backbreaking and endless, and unfortunately more work, was the only reward for many of the early immigrants, that came to settle the barren land.

However, for the few farmers that were lucky to work with Edmund, they saw salvation from his deep pockets, huge heart, and massive resources that he brought to bear, to teach, bolster, and, ultimately, build the, then fledgling, wine industry into the forebear of where it is today.