Makers of 'world's most dangerous wine' spend Christmas picking up the pieces from Beirut blast
For the Saadé family of 'wine war experts', grape picking in Syria was bad enough then came the Beirut blast, political crisis and Covid
1 January 2021 • 1:05pm
The Saadé family offices were a mere half a mile from the Beirut blast
Credit: ANWAR AMRO/AFP
Making the world's most dangerous wine in Syria at a time of war and growing grapes in a neighbouring Lebanon wracked by political and economic crises was tough enough.
But add to that the worst blast since Hiroshima and the Covid pandemic and it is nothing short of a miracle that the Saadés family still managed to harvest and bottle wines in Syria and Lebanon's Beqaa valley this year.