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.