![]() ![]() “We have a very ancient identity, and for me, reconstructing this identity is very important. 220 based on a reference in the Babylonian Talmud.“All our scriptures are full with wine and with grapes - before the French were even thinking about making wine, we were exporting wine,” he said. It grew out of a groundbreaking project at Ariel University in the occupied West Bank that aims to identify, through DNA testing - and recreate - ancient wines drunk by the likes of King David and Jesus Christ.Eliyashiv Drori, the Ariel oenologist who heads the research, traces marawi - also called hamdani - and jandali grapes to A.D. ![]() Image credit: Rina Castelnuovo for The New York TimesThe 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. Eliyashiv Drori, an Ariel University oenologist who heads the research that aims to identify and recreate ancient wines, worked in the foothills of Jerusalem in October 2012. ![]()
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