
The museum tour includes a short movie about the history of the Aaronsohn family and then a guided tour through the family home and adjoining buildings. It was a a moving and worthwhile experience for all of us.
After touring the museum, we took a short walk through the streets of picturesque Zichron.
We then took a short drive over to the Tishbi Winery. Tishbi has an inviting visitors' centre with an adjoining restaurant, a wine tasting area and a huge selection of chocolate for tasting or for purchase. The chocolate is Valrhona chocolate, imported from France. It is quite pricey though Tishbi has a huge selection of many different types made from cocoa beans from all over the world.
The wine itself - well...from what we tasted - it is nothing fantastic. The medium level wines - the "Estate" series were potable - but certainly not exceptional. The next level up were the "Reserve" series - at 95 N.I.S. per bottle - or about $28 Cdn. While all of these wines are Kosher but generally not Mevushal, we were not particularly impressed by what we tasted. However, the winery also sells wine from the keg - "fill your own style." We bought a 2 Litre glass jar and filled with some of the 2012 Cabernet-Shiraz that was available. We couldn't resist at the bargain price of 16 N.I.S. per litre (roughly $4.70) for drinkable wine and a nice souvenir bottle. The wine was certainly not nearly as bad as some of the stuff that I have tasted from Ontario wineries - but it was certainly not Napa Valley Cabernet...Nevertheless, since we were there and it was so cheap, it seemed worthwhile to grab a jug of it.
On our drive back to Ra'anana - which is about an hour away from Tishbi, we passed by one more winery - Binyamina - which I have written about previously.
While I can't say that the Tishbi winery was a huge hit, we did pick up some very tasty chocolate and some of the novelty jars of wine jelly that Tishbi also sells - to go with the 2 litres of plonk. But Zichron Ya'akov was certainly worthwhile. So overall, it was a fun and interesting day.
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