Beleaguered and beset by military occupation, bombardment, extremist settlers and movement-restricting apartheid, Palestine continues to harvest grapes and produce wine against all odds. Fadi Kattan and Anna Patrowicz It was a good land, called Yaa Figs were in it, and grapes It had more wine than water Abundant was its honey, plentiful its oil. —From “The story of Sinuhe the Egyptian” (1950 BC) Wine, the story of wines and winemaking is a powerful connector of people.