A Terroir, A Soul, A Great Wine

More than 4000 years ago, vines were already growing in the land of Canaan, what is today Lebanon. Our Phoenicians ancestors were among the first to ferment grape juice from the vines growing in the Bekaa valley.
They exported their wine around the Mediterranean Sea, where wrecks of two Phoenician vessels were found in 1999 with hundreds of wine amphorae on board, evidencing that the wine from our terroir has been appreciated for thousands of years. To honor this tradition, our wines are shipped from the ‘’Phoenicians’ Gate”.

A few centuries later, at the beginning of the first millennium, the Romans - who inherited wine knowledge - built the temple of the god of wine Bacchus in Baalbeck (50km from Kefraya).
The Romans settled for a long period on the land of Kefraya and left many vestiges such as a wine press made of stones…

Since the 11th century, the inhabitants of the region have been producing Arak, an aniseed-based eau de vie made from distilled grape juice, a tradition that is now the cornerstone of Lebanon's culinary heritage.