Barkan Assemblage Tzafit 750ml

The production of high-quality wines in Israel relies on a number of premises: High is good. Cool is good. Cabernet Sauvignon reigns. Wood, oak, French of course, and lots of it. Many good wines, as well as ours of course, are based on these premises. This wine upsets the applecart: it's as different as can be. 53% of this original blend is made up of a new variety: Marselan. This is a cross, created in France, between Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache. The researchers from the French National Agronomic Research Institute wanted to create a variety that will yield large crops and large berries. In fact, they achieved the opposite result: a variety with some of the smallest grains (the average weight of a berry is only 1.3 grams!). Marselan was first planted in the south of France in the 1990's, and the variety turned out to be of very high quality. Our Marselan plot is situated in Barkan Winery's vineyard farm in Tel Zafit, in the Judea plains. The crop in the vineyard was thinned to le