Rabbi Teams Up with Platres Winery to Reproduce Talmudic Wine of Cyprus - Cyprus Mail

At a date when a kosher chicken shortage has left the community bringing in fowl from Italy, and looking to Israel and Europe to supply other staples for Passover, which started yesterday, such as matzah, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, Chief Rabbi of Cyprus, turned to a local boutique winery to produce a kosher wine.“Close to 90 per cent of the kosher food here comes via plane or sea,” he said. “Having wine produced in Cyprus will manufacture it easier for the community to purchase not only the wine, but other Passover products as well.”

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