The Milk & Honey Distillery in Tel Aviv, Israel, is one of the latest distilleries amongst the so-called “new world” bunch to put its head above the parapet and call attention to itself. Like its colleagues in Taiwan, India, and even the likes of Australia, it’s a distillery in a hot climate country that is bending the barley to the beat of its own drum.
Milk & Honey was founded in 2012 and – again, like Kavalan in Taiwan – was shaped by the late Dr Jim Swan. One of Swan’s hallmarks was developing processes, systems, and strategies that typically bring whisky to maturation and market earlier than traditional methodologies, and Milk & Honey has benefitted accordingly.