Binyamina Winery

The Binyamina Winery (Hebrew: יקב בנימינה) is Israel's fifth largest, producing about 2.8 million bottles of wine annually.

[1] In those early years it produced mostly sweet wines and table wines, although it was also known for producing liquors under the label Hard Nut, named after Israeli prime minister David Ben Gurion, who was a "hard nut to crack".

[3] In 1994 it was purchased by a group of investors who renamed the winery and invested in new vineyards and technology.

Each is names after one of the stones in the biblical priestly breastplate, called hachoshen in Hebrew.

[1] The Tiltan label, named after the Hebrew word for a clover (which contains three leaves), contains wines which use grapes from three different vintages.