The return of arak Lebanese fire up their copper stills

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: January 25, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Neil MacFarquhar
International Herald Tribune
01-25-2005
It was a sunny morning in this hamlet high above the Mediterranean, one warm enough for walking in shirt sleeves amid the blooms of purple morning-glories. But the fresh mountain air was slightly moist with a hint of pending winter rains and the earthy ferment of mash.Yes that kind of mash. Vineyards surround the 60 white stone houses here, and in sheds behind a third of the homes older men were firing up their copper stills. A rite of the grape harvest in the Christian villages dotting the Lebanon mountain range (and occasionally in ...

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