The frosted bottle with Moses and the Torah on the front is Finnish, not Israeli - the label says Product of Finland plainly. Three bottles: the small-batch vodka at $39.99 under Chug Chatam Sofer and the Chief Rabbi of Helsinki, the date-infused vodka at $34.99 built on a sugar beet base so it sidesteps the grain question, and the arak at $38.99. All three are 700ml at 40%. Both vodkas are Kosher for Passover; the arak's listing records neither, and we say so. Includes the right way to cloud arak - water first, ice second.

Lychee turns up on our shelf in four completely different bottles - an Italian sparkling moscato in a can at $16.99, a Japanese sake at $15.99, a sweet Israeli fruit wine at $24.99, and an aniseed arak at $26.99. What each one tastes like, how sweet it really is, and which one belongs on your table.

Clear as water, smells like a bowl of dried figs, and it exists because there was almost no wine in Tunisia. What boukha is, how it differs from arak, and when to pour it.