With Indigenous grapes, Israel breaks new ground in wine industry

With Indigenous grapes, Israel breaks new ground in wine industry

HEFER VALLEY, Israel — The new crisp, acidic and mineral white from a high-end Israeli winery was aged for eight months — or, depending on how you look at it, at least 1,800 years. The wine, called Marawi and released last month by Recanati Winery, is the first commercially produced by Israel’s growing modern industry from indigenous grapes. It grew out of a ground-breaking project at Ariel University in the occupied West Bank.

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