WANT TO DRINK A GLASS OF WINE FROM ANCIENT EGYPT? TODAY YOU CAN. WINES PRODUCED IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE MADE USING ANCIENT METHODS AND AGE-OLD GRAPE VINES. ANCIENT WINES ARE NOT FULL-BODIED AND HAVE MINERAL AND EARTHY TONES...

Historians have located the Middle East as the cradle of the oldest wines in history. And, still today we can bring some of those wines to the table. This is a fascinating trend: wine was born there, 5 thousand years ago, as recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt (epitaphs and fossils in the jars) have revealed.

Throughout the entire area, wines are produced still today combining ancient techniques with new experimental technologies and, above all, using age-old vines, such as Obaideh (ancestor of the Chardonnay) and the Lebanese Merwah. It is medium-bodied wine, dominated by hints of earth and minerals in both the whites and the reds, so it is not easy to distinguish them in a blindfold tasting. The taste is less “aggressive” than the French wines and less fruity than the California ones. The flavors of wines of the ancient world are not "decipherable” using modern canons. Where can we find these “pearls of history”? Primarily in Israel, where wine is rooted in the culture, but also in Lebanon in the Chateau Musar wines. So, the past returns…in a glass.