This is the flagship wine of Carmel Winery. It is a Bordeaux style blend made in an ‘old world’, elegant style and the grapes are cherry picked from Carmel’s finest vineyards, throughout Israel. The drawing on the label is of Carmel’s Rishon Le Zion Wine Cellars – Israel’s oldest existing winery.

GRAPE VARIETIES
The grape varieties are Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Merlot and a little Cabernet Franc. The vineyards used in the blend are mainly from the Upper Galilee, but also from Zichron Ya’acov and the Judean Hills.

WINEMAKING
Each lot is vinified and aged separately for fifteen months in small, French oak barrels. The wine is then blended, bottled and aged for a minimum of twelve months in the bottle before release. It is un-fined and only coarsely filtered.

TASTING NOTE
Deep purple in color, Carmel Limited Edition has an aroma of black plum, violets, and tobacco leaves. It is full bodied, but shows extraordinary elegance and an excellent balance between fruit, tannins and acidity. The wine will continue to improve and develop in the next few years.

WINEMAKER
Carmel’s chief winemaker is Lior Laxer, ex lawyer and award winning sommelier. After deciding on a career change, he studied winemaking & graduated in Beaune, France. He followed this by gaining valuable work experience in Burgundy, Bordeaux and Australia. He also worked with Michel Rolland, the world’s most famous winemaking consultant. He joined Carmel in 2003 and became chief winemaker in 2005.
Laxer likes to make elegant wines with refreshing acidity. It is particularly important to him that the finished wine will be fruit led, not dominated by oak.

CARMEL WINERY
Carmel is the historic winery of Israel, being founded in 1882 by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, owner of Chateau Lafite in Bordeaux. Carmel owns the two largest wineries in Israel at Rishon Le Zion and Zichron Ya’acov, and new state-of-the-art small wineries at Ramat Dalton in the north and Tel Arad in the south.
Carmel has vineyards in all the quality growing regions of Israel and is particularly well represented in the premium Upper Galilee.
Carmel’s wines range from the prestige Carmel Limited Edition, one of Israel’s finest wines, to Carmel Selected, Israel’s largest selling brand. Their labels/ brands are:
Carmel Limited Edition, Single Vineyard, Appellation, Private Collection and Selected.

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