Middle Eastern Wine article in Ireland's Sunday Business Post

Good piece by Tomás Clancy in the Sunday Business Post on wine from the Middle East. You have got to love this opening paragraph:

"As the bombing and rocket attacks in Gaza and Israel intensified over the past few weeks, saturating the 24-hour news channels, I found myself turning the sound down and gazing at the horrific images emanaying from the region. Through camera shots panning back and forth across the horizon I noticed that the rural landscape of the area - with its low, inclined slopes, good gravel and southern Rhone-like stoney fields - was ideal wine country".

He goes on to say that the Golan Heights, Gaza, parts of the Negev Desert, and the hillside slopes of Bethlehem, are all "potentially one giant vineyard".

I haven't read Jimmy Carter's new book "We can have peace in the Holy Land: A plan that will work", but Tomás Clancy's idea of turning the place into a giant vineyard sounds good to me. Make wine not war.


[ The Tomás Clancy article is not online yet..]