A collector edition is, at its best, a grammar. It tells you where a bottle stands in relation to every other bottle in its run, and where the run stands in relation to the idea that produced it. The Bereshit Series by Tannenblut is built on this grammar. Three thousand numbered bottles, distilled once, never reproduced, organised into six tiers that descend from a single apex. What follows is a reading of that architecture, tier by tier, as it appears in the allocation materials and in the bottles themselves.

1. The Rebbe Bottle: A One-of-One at the Apex

At the top of the Bereshit Series sits a single flask. It is called the Rebbe bottle, and there is only one. It is not a limited edition in the soft sense the word has come to carry; it is a unique object, numbered once, dedicated once, sealed once. The flask carries a personal rabbinical dedication prepared within the Chabad-Lubavitch tradition, and encloses an original Rebbe Dollar, the historical collector artefact familiar to readers of that lineage.

The bottle is tied to the number 770, a numeral of long symbolic resonance within Chabad thought. Nothing about the object is incidental. The matte-black glass, the hand-bottling, the dedication, the enclosed dollar, the numeral, each element is a carrier of meaning rather than a decorative gesture. For Tannenblut, the Rebbe bottle is the point from which the rest of the series reads. Every other tier is, in a sense, a measured distance from this one flask. Allocation, as one would expect, is private, and the full documentation, including the identity of the certifying rabbi, is transmitted only to the collector on acceptance.

2. The Holy Numbers Edition: Numerals With Hebrew Documentation

Below the apex sits the Holy Numbers Edition. These are bottles whose numbers within the run of 3,000 have been selected for their religious resonance. Each is accompanied by an individual Hebrew document that references the Tanya, the foundational text of Chabad philosophy, and sets the chosen numeral in its traditional context. The document is not an ornament attached to the bottle; it is the bottle’s second body, the textual companion without which the numeral would be mute.

The Holy Numbers Edition is, in practical terms, the tier in which the religious framing of the Bereshit Series becomes most explicit. A collector receives not only a bottle of Tannenblut but a small, bound act of reading. The numerals themselves remain confidential until allocation, which preserves the integrity of the tier against secondary speculation. The kosher certification covering the entire production applies here as throughout the series, issued under rabbinical supervision within the Chabad-Lubavitch tradition. The document and the bottle travel together, and neither is intended to be separated from the other in the collector’s keeping.

3. Founder’s Tier, Numbers 1 to 50

The Founder’s Tier comprises the first fifty numbered bottles of the Bereshit Series. Each carries the hand-signed authentication of Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.), the Founding Partner of Tactical Management and the custodian of the Tannenblut project, together with an individually prepared certificate of origin. The tier is called Founder’s not as a marketing flourish but as a matter of register: these are the bottles that stand closest, in numerical sequence, to the ignition of the series itself.

A collector in this tier holds an object that is unambiguously early. Bottle number 7, bottle number 18, bottle number 36, each reads differently against the history of the run, and the signed certificate makes that position legible to anyone who comes to the bottle later. The Founder’s Tier was conceived as the first circle of readers around the Bereshit Series, and the allocation list for these fifty bottles was closed in a correspondingly narrow manner. The tier sits between the explicitly religious apex and the broader collector body, and inherits something of the weight of both.

4. Early Collector Edition and 5. Premium Edition

The Early Collector Edition follows the Founder’s Tier. Each bottle carries a signed rabbinical certificate of origin, confirming the kosher production, the hand-bottling in the Black Forest, and the bottle’s place within the run of 3,000. The certificate is the document that allows an Early Collector bottle to be read, decades from now, as what it is: a bottle from a single distillation, authenticated at source, never reproduced.

The Premium Edition sits immediately below. Its distinguishing element is a full documentation dossier accompanying each bottle: the certificate of origin, the kosher certification references, the botanical record of the distillation, and the tier placement within the Bereshit Series. The Premium collector receives the most complete textual body of any tier apart from the Rebbe bottle and the Holy Numbers Edition. For a family office or a cultural archive, this dossier is the instrument that allows the bottle to be held as an item of record rather than merely an item of taste, which matters in the long conservation of any collector object.

6. The Standard Collector Bottles

The remainder of the 3,000 forms the Standard Collector tier. The word standard is deceptive. Every bottle in this tier is from the same single distillation, the same Black Forest copper still, the same wild botanicals of fir, spruce, wild juniper, and blackthorn, the same hand-bottling in matte-black glass, the same kosher certification under rabbinical supervision. What distinguishes it from the tiers above is the density of accompanying documentation, not the character of the liquid or the integrity of the object.

This is the tier in which Tannenblut meets the widest part of its collector circle, and it is here that the architecture of the Bereshit Series reveals itself most clearly. Each tier is a different density of the same principle. The Standard Collector bottle and the Rebbe bottle are not two different products; they are two readings of one distillation, placed at different positions along a single line. Allocation remains by private invitation. There is no public retail, no open shop, no replenishment. When the 3,000 are placed, the series is closed.

A grammar is only useful if one can read it end to end. The Bereshit Series begins in a single flask tied to the number 770 and ends in the last numbered bottle of three thousand, and between these two points it holds, without breaking, the same quiet principle that Jakob Ferdinand Nagel carried from Hamburg into the Black Forest. Tannenblut is the instrument through which that principle is now set down, under the stewardship of Tactical Management, in glass, in Hebrew, and in signature. Collectors wishing to be considered for allocation may enter the Collector List at tannenblut.co/collector-list.