For Lebanon's wine industry, exports have become a means of survival amid the country's worst financial crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The general recession, devaluation of the Lebanese pound, which has lost 95% of its value, hyperinflation and rising poverty have hampered wine imports, as well as local production and consumption. Carlos Adem, who founded Chateau Fakra winery in 1985 and serves as president of the Syndicate of Producers ...