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Tannenblut · Bereshit Series · Holiday gift

A Yom Tov gift that remembers the year.

Holiday gifting in Jewish practice is a discipline of remembrance, not abundance. The bottle that arrives in a fir-wood box with an engraved number and a tier placement within a closed edition of 3,000 reads, on the holiday table, as something other than a season’s pleasantry. It is the gift that the host will still have a year from now, and ten years from now, and that will be remembered for the giver.

Quiet holiday table with Tannenblut
The bottle that remembers the year.

The holidays the bottle was made for

Rosh Hashanah — the head of the year. A bottle accompanied by a written wish for a sweet year reads, in a tradition that prefers documents to gestures, more clearly than honey. The bottle stays on the shelf through the High Holidays; the wish stays with it.

Sukkot — the festival of the booth. A guest gift for the sukkah host who has built a structure with their hands for seven days. The vessel’s matte-black glass is at home next to lulav and etrog.

Chanukah — eight nights of light. Hanukkah giving has migrated, in modern practice, toward the eight-gifts-per-child convention, with one major gift across the cycle. Tannenblut sits in the position of the major gift. The fir resin in the botanical inventory was harvested in winter; the bottle reads warm.

Tu B’Shevat — the new year of the trees. No bottle in the world is more on-brand for this minor festival than a gin distilled from the resin and tip of a single forest.

Purim — mishloach manot, the obligation of sending portions. In a Sephardic household where mishloach manot is approached with the seriousness of Pesach, a documented bottle rises above the typical confection-and-chocolate basket.

Pesach — Passover. Note: grain-based gin is not kosher for Pesach. The Bereshit Series carries year-round Chabad-Lubavitch certification, not Passover certification. Specific Passover status is communicated privately in the documentation.

Shavuot — the giving of the Torah. A gift that travels with a Hebrew document, in the Holy Numbers Edition, is unusually well-positioned for a holiday that celebrates the act of receiving a text.

The tier ladder

Six tiers organise the edition. For most Yom Tov gifting the right price points are €149 (Standard Collector) or €324 (the Double-Chai Vessel, 18 × 18). For institutional dedications — a Federation president, the head of a Chabad house at his yahrzeit, a synagogue’s centenary — the upper tiers apply.

Lead time

Allocation closes one to two weeks before delivery for any single bottle. For a holiday arriving within thirty days, write directly and the cellar-master will confirm availability the same day.

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