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In Lebanese Wine, Perseverance Is Part of the Terroir
When an explosion devastated Beirut, shattering the offices of the Saadé family s wine firm, a father and two sons took it as another challenge to overcome Beirut s port was devastated by the blast, which was equivalent to a 3.3 magnitude earthquake. (AFP via Getty Images) By Dec 9, 2020
On Aug. 4, just after 6 p.m., Johnny Saadé and his sons Sandro and Karim were meeting in his office on the eighth floor of a building on Pasteur Street in the Gemmayzeh neighborhood of Beirut. The family of vintners owns two wine estates the 148-acre Chateau Marsyas in Lebanon s Beqaa Valley and the 30-acre Bargylus in Syria but their business and management offices sit less than a half-mile from the port of Beirut. From their