Lebanese wine
Lebanon has a 5,000-year winemaking history and is one of the oldest wine production regions in the world. The prophet Hosea (780–725 BC) is said to have urged his followers to return to God so that "they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon..." == History == === Antiquity === Vitis vinifera may have been domesticated in Lebanon, although it probably arrived from the South Caucasus via Mesopotamia or the Black Sea trade routes, and the saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast strain crucial to winemaking, may also have originated in Mesopotamia, but a microsatellite-based study also identified a distinct cluster in Lebanon.