In Lebanon, Winemaking Persists Through Conflict—as It Has for Generations

In Lebanon, Winemaking Persists Through Conflict—as It Has for Generations

Simon Bajada. Simon Bajada “If you’d called two minutes earlier, you would have heard the jets overhead,” Eddie Chami tells me by phone. The winemaker at Mersel Wine says it’s impossible to count the number of warplanes that have flown over his winery since the bombardments intensified in September. Chami lives in northern Lebanon, a distant 80 miles from the southern border with Israel. Last fall, the sounds of war both surprised and terrified …