the story
A Journey Back to the Roots
Sept Winery is, at once, “l’aboutissement” et le “début”: the answer to a long journey of pursuit and the first chapter of a new life of passion. A decade of daydreaming, questioning, and hard decisions finally leads to a dream project coming true in 2017. When Maher leaves to France at the age of 17, little does he know that his true destiny awaits him in the land of his father. While trying to make sense out of a fast-paced life in Paris, a new feeling of happiness slowly unfolded with every glass of wine he poured. Each glass was a moment of encounter, of exchange, of discovery.
The rural life of French winemakers living and sharing their passion every day, that’s the life he wanted. One shared over a good glass of wine. The vision becomes clear and the heart, full. Maher leaves his career in mathematics and returns to the roots, where the memories he cherished with his father were most alive.
where
The Village: Nehla
honoring the ancestors
The First Biodynamic
Vineyard in Lebanon
Reviving the land he inherited from his father was the most beautiful tribute he could give him, with each of the 5,000 vines he planted with his bare hands.
Maher’s dream project had yet another mission: to honor ancestral wisdom by endorsing ancient agriculture practices he learned in his village while growing up. This is how he transforms his terraces into the first biodynamic vineyard in Lebanon.