What Are Americans Drinking?
by Farrah Berrou
For close to a year, I’ve been working as the self-proclaimed Ancient World specialist in a wine shop. In the process of spitting samples into a sink with various salesmen,...
Farrah Berrou
Farrah is a Lebanese-American wine writer and podcaster based in Beirut, Lebanon. After working in retail, she discovered a love for wine and began to dig deep into the region’s history associated with winemaking. Her podcast covers wine stories from the Fertile Crescent and she is currently Contributing Editor of The Wine Zine.
Articles by Farrah Berrou
Until We Meet Again
by Farrah Berrou
When I was starting out in wine, I used to worry that I couldn’t point to a single transformative moment at the start of my career. You know, THE ONE...
The Great Exchange
by Farrah Berrou
The poet and sommelier Amanda Smeltz once wrote about how geography – whether you’re based in a small town or in a teeming metropolis – determines which wines you can...
Anchors
by Farrah Berrou
For the last two decades, I have been anchored in Lebanon. I have also been an anchor for people who have left: the friend you could moor your boat to,...
The Things That Remain
by Farrah Berrou
In 2006, during Lebanon’s short but destructive war with Israel, we lost our home but managed to save eight bottles of wine from the rubble including a 1988 Dom Pérignon...