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					Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski  the lebanese wine industry is probably a few decades away from producing a wine equal to the food at the restaurant, no? | 
	
 The Lebanese wine industry has been around for millennia.  It reached its high point in the 50s and 60s, when Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East.
While it has suffered greatly from the years of civil war and social upheaval, they still manage to turn out some excellent wines.