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Rare Opportunity To Taste Wine From Lebanon At Wine & Food Week in The Woodlands

By: Debra Ford
| Published 05/30/2023

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THE WOODLANDS, TX --- North American Wine & Spirit Importers, LLC (NAWSI) announced that it will be presenting its award-winning Wine from Lebanon collection at two events during the 19th Annual Wine & Food Week in The Woodlands. Featuring 15 winemakers, the collection will be presented on Saturday, June 10, 2023, for the public at the Taste of Lebanon kiosk, which will be featured during the Wine Rendezvous Grand Tasting & Chef Showcase. Members of the retail and restaurant trade are invited to attend a tasting prior to the Wine Rendezvous Grand Tasting & Chef Showcase. Both tastings will be held at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott. This is a rare opportunity to taste the wines before they are released and go on sale for the first time in Texas. Event goers and area retailers will be able to learn firsthand how the individual wines are made and the history of the world’s oldest wine producing country.

Wine from Lebanon launched in Houston in 2022, bringing the taste of 15 innovative winemakers from one of the oldest and finest wine growing regions in the world, introducing four unique indigenous grapes to the state of Texas. Texas ranks 3rd in the United States for wine consumption and Texans have a thirst for exploring new wine regions consuming 64.3 gallons of wine per year. Several of the select winemakers are female-owned and managed wineries, under the age of 40 years old, and utilizing indigenous grapes like Obaideh, Merwah, Meksassi, and Sobbagiegh, some of which have never been tasted in the United States.

Wine from Lebanon made an early splash in the Houston area winning an unprecedented 21 medals at the 20th Annual Rodeo Uncorked! ® International Wine Competition hosted by Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™. This year’s winners were announced on November 17th at NRG Center, which featured 3,071 entries from 18 countries.

“I’m elated that our curated collection of Wine from Lebanon took so many awards at the recent Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™ International Wine Competition,” said Sam Jaoude, co-founder of NAWSI. “As a very proud Lebanese American, we’re excited to share these award-winning wines before they are released in the market at Wine & Food Week at The Woodlands. We have had very enthusiastic responses from area retailers and restaurateurs who are keen on selling the wine as soon as it is available. This year will be very special as wine enthusiasts can be some of the first to sip history, sip life, and sip love!”

Wine from Lebanon will make its debut at retail in 2023, details forthcoming. For now, wine and food lovers at Wine & Food Week in The Woodlands get the first sips! For more information, contact admin@nawsimporters.com or to learn more about this curated collection of wine visit winefromlebanon.com.

Saturday, June 10
The Woodlands Waterway Marriott
By Invitation Retail & Trade Tasting
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
The Woodlands meeting room


Saturday, June 10
The Woodlands Waterway Marriott
Wine Rendezvous Grand Tasting & Chef Showcase
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Ballroom



SIP HISTORY. SIP LIFE. SIP LOVE.
Lebanon is the oldest wine-producing region in the world, tracing back 7,000 years to the seafaring Phoenicians. Lebanese people domesticated the grapes grown in what is recognized as one of the most geographically, ideal wine-growing regions. The country’s dry, sunny climate and landscape are ideal for grape growing. The snow-capped Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains provide protection for the high-elevation vines of the Bekaa Valley, many grown at more than 3,000 feet. Elevation plays a key role in the rugged hills of the Jezzine wine region in the south. In Batroun, a region north of Beirut, the Mediterranean Sea cools the vineyards.

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