• Wines of Lebanon Flat Cover
  • Wines of Lebanon Flat Cover
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  • Format:Hardback
  • ISBN:9789953738895
  • Publication Date:05-04-2025

Wines of Lebanon

The Journey Continues

Michael Karam

Wines of Lebanon

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Photography by Norbert Schiller
Published by Librairie Antoine

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15th May 2025

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Michael Karam and Norbert Schiller’s latest collaboration is a follow-up to the award-winning Wines of Lebanon (2005), in which the pair take us on another journey through the vineyards of Lebanon. They chart a history of winemaking that began with early man and which, over the next 7000 years, witnessed the convulsions of a region central to the story of humanity, meeting the people who epitomize a proud tradition, sharing their challenges, triumphs and tragedies. This book also highlights the development of an industry from one that operated in isolation, part of a rural and religious tradition, to one that has adapted to a global industry while coping with conflict and instability.

Wines of Lebanon: The Journey Continues is both a wine guide and a cultural history. Extensively illustrated, it is a valuable reference for all wine enthusiasts and those with an interest in the Middle East. For the Lebanese, wherever they may live, the book also serves as a cultural touchstone, connecting them with a proud and unique heritage.
‘Michael’s writing and Norbert’s beautiful images capture the very essence of what it means to be Lebanese,’ says Librairie Antoine Chairman, Sami Naufal. ‘So in this respect it is much more than a wine book; it is a celebration of a nation.’

Michael KARAM has written about wine in Decanter, Harpers, Drinks Business, The Spectator, Club Oenologique and jancisrobinson.com. His books include, Wines of Lebanon, which won the Gourmand Award for the Best New World Wine Book, 2005; Chateau Ksara: 150 Years of Winemaking; Arak and Mezze: The Taste of Lebanon; Tears of Bacchus: A History of Wine in the Arab World and Michael Karam’s Lebanese Wines. He is a contributor to Jancis Robinson’s Oxford Companion to Wine; The World Atlas of Wine; Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book and The Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopaedia. He co-wrote and starred in the 2020 feature length documentary Wine and War.
He has appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, CNN, CNN Business, CNBC, and
Winemasters TV.

Norbert SCHILLER has lived in the Middle East and Africa as a news photographer for over 40 years. He has worked for the Associated Press, Agence France Presse, European Pressphoto Agency, United Press International, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel, covering, among others, three Iraq wars, wars and famine in the Horn of Africa, Islamist insurgencies in Egypt and North Africa, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His collaborations with Michael Karam include Wines of Lebanon; Arak and Mezze: The Taste of Lebanon,
and Château Ksara: 150 years of Winemaking 1857–2007. Schiller has co-authored and illustrated several other books about the region: Be Thou There: The Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt; Spectacular Egypt; and A
Million Steps: Discovering the Lebanon Mountain Trail. He is the curator of www.photorientalist.org, a website dedicated to the preservation of historic images from the Middle East and North Africa.

  • Weight 2.5 kg
  • Dimensions 245 x 305 mm

‘The books that taught me about wine were about places and people. It’s the history and stories about a wine that bring it to life and make it worth talking about.’

– Steven Spurrier