Byline: JONATHAN BROCKLEBANKDaily Mail (London)
His birth name is Mounir Saouma. He was born Catholic in Lebanon and trained in wine making by monks in Israel. Mounir came to Burgundy in 1995, worked for severalnégociantsand then started his own micro-négociantfirm in 1999 with his wife-to-be Rotem. He buys wine from perhaps thirty ...
introduced by the Romans and then actively developed by monks in the late Middle Ages. Here in the Basque Country, the first vineyards of any scale were those of the Roncesvalles abbey. The monks made wine to supply pilgrims en route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella in Spanish...
Aside from a couple of wine shops, we visited two places where wine is made, one being the Monastery at Arkadi where the wines are still made by the monks. The other was the Kourkoulou Winery located near the center of the island. We had a proper tour of the vineyards, production ar...
... monks who have been following the same silent and solitude way of life for 1500 years, giving up all the wordly possessions in the hope of something other wordly. The setting for this programe is stunning, an old stone monastery surrounded by hills and valleys. But it's also silent...
You can also find several sweet wines, the best known being Muscat de Frontignan, as well as the lesser known sparkling wine Blanquette de Limoux, which is thought to date back to 1531 when it was made by monks at the Abbaye de St-Hilaire, long before Dom Pérignon started experimenting...
The Entre Deux Mers region was first planted to vines by the ancient Romans. But the area earned its reputation for wine produced by Benedictine Monks during the Middle Ages. Many of the best growers with the Bordeaux Superieur designation come from the large, Entre Deux Mers appellation. Gener...
Georgian monks make wine using ancient techniques Georgia, considered the birthplace of wine, has been making wine for 8,000 years. Producers are restoring the country's ancient grape varieties and introducing Georgian wines to the rest of the world. ...
Igé is a small village located between Cluny and Mâcon in the south ofBurgundy. Viticulture here dates back to the Roman period, and was extensively developed by monks in the Middle ages. To the south of Igé lie the communes ofVerzéandLa Roche-Vineusebeyond whileAzéis to the north....
accolade," said Abadía Retuerta CEO Enrique Valero, "because it underlines our work philosophy, our dedication and our unwavering commitment in the way we do things: avoiding trends and ensuring the renewal of a historic vineyard [vines were grown by the monks on the original monastery site]....