Co-Owner of Massaya Ramzi Ghosn [Matbakh]
Ramzi Ghosn talks about the profession of wine and arak-making and its significance in the Levant, notably in Lebanon. From Massaya, he discusses how Phoenicians valued viticulture and developed the finest wines that continues to be exported to the world.
Ramzi Ghosn is a winemaker, arak maker and co-owner of Massaya. In 1992, alongside his brother, Ramzi revived his family’s country-side property, transforming it into a thriving winery and arak distillery that draws on and preserves traditional arak-making techniques and tools.
About Matbakh
Matbakh is a conversation series that focuses on food and drink of the Arab world. The series will be held with food practitioners who study how food and the kitchen have evolved over time in the Arab world. The guests will be discussing the history of food and what its future might be, in addition to a specific recipe or ingredient that reveals interesting and unique information about the history of the Arab world. Guests will be chefs, food critics, food writers, historians, and academics. Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience on Zoom.
