02/09/2026
High in the hills above Batroun, where the mountains meet the Mediterranean, Maher Harb (ابو كيِان) built something that didn't exist yet in Lebanon.
It started in 2012 — just Maher, 5,000 vines planted by hand and a dog named Miles. No formal training, no shortcuts. Just a deep pull back to his father's land and a promise to make something honest out of it.
Today, Sept (Sept Winery) is Lebanon's only biodynamic w**ery and a pioneer of natural w**es in the country — working with rare indigenous grapes like Merweh and Obeideh, some from century-old vines, fermented naturally, without additives. Wines that taste like the mountain they came from.
But Maher didn't stop at the glass. He built La Table Sept (latablesept) — the w**ery's own garden-to-table restaurant, where the same land that feeds the vines also feeds the plate. There's no fixed menu here. Whatever the garden gives up that morning — the herbs, the vegetables, the fruit — becomes lunch. A living, seasonal menu shaped entirely by what's ripe, what's ready, and what the earth offers that day.
Sit down at Table Sept and you're not just having a meal. You're tasting the same soil, the same sun, the same care that goes into every bottle Maher makes — vineyard and garden, w**e and food, all one story.
