Bekaa Valley, Lebanon This gift box is EXCLUSIVE to Sahadi Spirits in the US! You can ONLY buy this here. Contains 1 750ml bottle of Ksarak and 2 branded Ksara arak glasses. The perfect gift! Made from Ugni Blanc & Obeidi (indigenous to Lebanon), the grapes are first pressed then fermented between 15 and 20 days at low temp. The wines are distilled in Ksara's unique rectification column, which eliminates the methanol and all heavy and unhealthy oils that spoil the taste. Then, this pure grape alcohol is redistilled in a specially designed alembic made in France with the aniseed: Ksarak only uses aniseed from the reputed Mount Hermon's Al Heeneh area in Syria. The delicate scent of the prime aniseed is appealing to the true connoisseur. Only the "pure flower" obtained through an independent pipe is used to make the arak. Ksarak is finally matured for 2 years in clay jars manufactured in Beit Chebab following ancestral norms. Could be drunk pure or with the water and ice.