On World Whisky Day earlier this week (May 20), Israel's Milk & Honey (M&H) distillery launched the country's first-ever malt whiskey. M&H has bottled the first cask in its experimental series, an integral component of the formulation of the final product, which is now in production at the distillery. The initial sales of the distillery's first 391 bottles of single malt whiskey will go on sale later in June.

Israel's first single malt whiskey by Tel Aviv's Milk & Honey Distillery is the first whiskey to be produced and bottled in Israel after being aged in cask for minimum three years. It, therefore, complies with the definition of whiskey in Scotland. The special Israeli whiskey is well mature, thanks to the warm Israeli climate.

The distillation of this historical holy land whiskey began at the distillery's early stages - even before it moved to its distillery in south Tel Aviv before the current industrial equipment was purchased, and before the successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. The barrel was distilled in January 2014 in a warehouse in the Northern Sharon region, by head distiller Tomer Goren, together with the internationally renowned master distiller, the late Dr. Jim Swan, as part of his role as a consultant to the distillery at the time.

The liquid was aged for 31 months in a 225-liter virgin American oak cask and then for another seven months in an ex-bourbon cask matured at the distillery's cask room in Tel Aviv.

The first bottles of Israeli single malt whiskey will go on sale to the public in June.

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