Milk & Honey Apex Dead Sea
L'Chaim
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Review by @markjedi1
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- Brand: Milk & Honey
- ABV: 56.2%
- Batch: Batch 010
The Dead Sea is the lowest lake in the world, about 429 meters below sea level. It is a real tourist attraction and Israel has about 15 hotels along the coast. On the roof of some of those hotels, the Milk & Honey Distillery from Tel Aviv matured some casks. And in 2021 they launched their Dead Sea whisky in the Apex range. Only 4892 bottles were bottled and it will be tricky to get hold of one. I was lucky enough to be able to reserve my bottle at the M&H tasting at Buds & Barrels right away, thanks for that Tom!
On the nose I get intense notes of citrus fruit, minerals and salt. Lime in particular stands out for me. It also offers a lot of sweets like Werther's Original, honey and lightly roasted butter. A soft smokiness appears. This is delicious!
The taste starts very firm and spicy with a sweet and sour touch like grapefruit with a delicious smokiness. Those casks were simmering at the Dead Sea. The development is very beautiful and the dram becomes particularly complex.
A long, warm, smoky and particularly sweet finish to boot.
L'chaim, friends! That's Hebrew for 'on life'. Yes, I really like to toast that with this most beautiful of whiskies that I already tasted from our friends in Tel Aviv. Glad I got my bottle.
L’Chaim means, more accurately, “to life”. It is the Hebrew ( also used in Yiddish ) version of “cheers”, santé, Geonbae, etc…
Very appropriate for a whisky, or “mashke” as we would call it in Yiddish. Interestingly, many people call it “bronfn” (בראָנפֿן) and I am not sure whether that is in honour of the Bronfman family (of Canadian Whisky fame) or whether they were called Bronfman because of a family history of the whisky trade. Either way…
I was successful in securing a bottle of the Apex Pomegranate and I hope it will one day be muled over to Canada, and I know that several of the Apex bottlings will make it to Alberta, but I’m afraid the Dead Sea bottling is priced well out of my range. Pity, because it sounds like something I would live to taste.
I will enjoy it vicariously through you!