Heya 'Kanz' Lebanon Red 2022

Press 4 Red • March 2024 Direct Press Selection Heya, which means 'she' in Arabic, was started by Claudine Lteif and Michelle Chami. They told us, "we are both good friends and we both love the land and are fascinated with the science of fermentation, so since we helped Eddie (Michelle's husband, of Mersel Wine) with many harvests and at the winery, we used to hang out and work on the field. We enjoyed it a lot but then as a joke we said “hey we should make wine of our own”, it could be like a female inspired wine, and then the joke turned into reality. It also stems from not enough women being on the field and so we also wanted to encourage more women to do what they loved and to break away from the stigmas of winemaking not being a woman’s job. We wanted to be different from Mersel and we wanted to create something new in the Lebanese market so we thought of focusing on conferments using local fruits. All our wines are made with so much love and passion and we do everything by hand (