D oyou need to know a wine’s background to enjoy it? Hedonistically speaking, of course not: attractive scent and deeply satisfying flavours are enough. But wine offers more: the taste of a place; a story of cultivation and creation. Hedonistically, the two wines I am about to write about are outstanding. Their story, meanwhile, is beyond parallel.
The extensive Saadé family was one of Syria’s largest landowners: Latakia-based Orthodox Christians whose agricultural wealth developed industrial and
