We offer you the opportunity to time travel with our bottles selected with passion by our wine masters. Inspired by the Phoenicians, who founded 5000 years ago several Mediterranean regions (Including Kition, Cyprus) where they introduced the alphabet we use today, valued products, and a fabulous and yet unknown plant: grape vines. Today, let’s sail on the cedar sailboats to explore this ancient maritime and wine network from its roots, so we can swirl the Eastern Mediterranean, watch the Biblical Canaan, sniff the oldest wine terroir, and cheer to taste the wines of the gods… from Lebanon.
An exceptional wine civilization called Phoenicia gave us the alphabet we use today, the royal purple dye, and other important things. Phoenicia was centered in the northern reaches of Canaan and the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. To give you all a better picture, it is modern-day Lebanon.
Phoenician Ship
We can thank the Phoenicians for spreading wine to Greece, Rome, and Spain and then indirectly to France through the Romans. Phoenicians helped elevate wine into a valued product with their knowledge of growing grapes, winemaking, and transportation of the final product by traveling through the sea with their Cedar sailboats that carried large amphoras (often known as the “Canaanite jar”) of wine.
2,600-year-old wine ‘factory’ unearthed in Lebanon
The Rapiuma and others were specific in identifying the choice wine of Lebanon as being one nurtured by ĒL, the primary Canaanite god, protector of the universe who nurtures wine that is fit for god and kings
“Day long they pour the wine,… must-wine, fit for rulers.
Wine, sweet and abundant,Select wine…
The choice wine of Lebanon,Most nurtured by El.”“Eat, o Gods, and drink,drink wine till you are sated”
From the Rapiuma, Phoenician poem, 2500 BC