A wine, a soil and a history…The Johnny R.Saadé family produces Domaine de Bargylus, the first premium wine in Syria. Cited by Pliny the Elder, Mount Bargylus, known today as Jebel Al-Ansariyé, spreads from the Orontes Valley near the ancient city of Antioch to the Eleutherus Valley in the south of ancient Emesa. Located in the hinterland of the modern Syrian city of Lattakia and the Canaanite metropolis of Ugarit, the slopes of Mount Bargylus were richly covered with vines during the Greco-roman era. The Johnny R.Saadé family created Domaine de Bargylus in order to revive an exceptional “terroir” of an ancestral land.
