Sooner or later, everything old is new again.

Stephen King

In 2015 after 23 years operating in their original location in Ramat Raziel, Castel opened its new larger facility in Yad HaShmona. Besides providing greater capacity, the new winery provided state of the art technology to aid in creating some truly excellent wines. It also created an opportunity. At Ramat Raziel, Castel had a perfectly good functioning winery. Rather than decommission the older facility, the winery in Ramat Raziel was repurposed as an experimental winery for the Ben-Zaken family to try new things. This eponymous wine is the first commercial product out of the Razi’el Winery.