Any Argentina Australia Austria Bulgaria Canada Chile Croatia Cyprus Czech rep. Today, the modern wine messiah is a gentle but stubborn man named Serge Hochar. Messiah, but with a touch of Don Quixote.
Serge has a passion for creating idiosyncratic but complex reds and whites.
His determination is so deep he continued to make wines during the 15-year long Lebanese civil war when shells were raining on his vineyards and he was being sniped at by warring religious factions. Today, Beirut is being rebuilt once more and it may take 50 years to complete it. Wine has been our companion since the early stages of humanity. His vineyards are also steeped in history, mostly in the Bekaa Valley, where Baalbek houses a famed ancient Roman temple devoted to Bacchus, God of Wine. The vines are sited at high cool altitudes on gravel soils.