The New Old World

How the world’s oldest wine regions are finally making their way into the mainstream wine industry.

Words: Katy Severson
Illustration: Chi Park

I first tried Lebanese wine last year. And it felt, at the time, surprising. I’ve never been to Lebanon and it’s not the first place I think of when I think of wine. Like a lot of people in the Western world I’ve always associated wine with Western Europe and the ‘old world’ designations of France, Italy, Greece…