“After almost two years of Corona,” says Zeevi Gilad, owner of Nia Productions – the event’s producers, “this is the second live whiskey to return to the world, shortly after the Paris event. It’s great fun for people to meet and drink together this year “In the form of unique bottles and in the number of independent bottles that have already become something permanent in the barrel and industry landscape, alongside the classic distilleries.”
The audience of Israeli whiskey drinkers has been revealed in recent years as having a deep understanding of quality whiskey, and according to surveys, there has been a significant increase in the consumption of the drink in Israel. Yes, the corona did well for the popularity of this barley distillate.
The international whiskey live exhibition from Whiskey Magazine is unquestionably a center of pilgrimage for whiskey lovers and it can probably already be declared that Israel is a real whiskey-nation. Israel ranks as a prominent host of the exhibition alongside other leading countries such as Australia, Ireland, England, USA, Belgium, India, the Netherlands, Japan, and France and more, and as such it is a high standard production with dozens of rare bottles, tasting workshops, premium complex, experts From around the world and more.
Along with leading brands such as McAllen, Glenlivet, Aberlour, Loch Lomond and others, this year we also found more Israeli distilleries, such as Yerushalmi, Golani and Milk & Honey, which close in huge quality gaps with old distilleries from abroad and present a variety of drinks in various combinations, sometimes even quite disturbing. , In a good section.
Wandering through the stalls, we also came across other beverage manufacturers. Alexander Beer, for example, presents a beer with a high alcohol content (11.2%) that has been aged for a long time in whiskey barrels, steam, a manufacturer of original sweet and sour tahini liqueur, and how not – importers of quality cigars from South and Central America, to complete the atmosphere.
“We Israelis are open to innovations and thirst for them,” says the independent bottler Uri from Single & Single, “which is why we bring to Israel rare editions of whiskey from renowned distilleries such as Kaoul Ayala, Bonhaven, McAllen and others, but those produced and aged according to our preferences.” .
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