The Carmey Avdat Winery is a family-run, ecological farm that cultivates grapes using ancient irrigation terraces. (Carmey Avdat)
The Negev Desert Wine Route -- BBC
Like most Middle Eastern deserts, the Negev is usually associated with sand, rock and the odd camel. However, this seemingly dry and arid region in southern Israel is now home to a burgeoning wine route, thanks to a group of pioneering 21st-century farmers and their use of computerized drip irrigation.
The Negev gets less than 100mm of rain per year, most of which is washed away in flash floods down mountainsides, so the use of irrigation is not necessarily new. The Nabataeans – the ancient desert nomads who built their capital in Petra in the Hellenistic period – were so good at conserving water that their kings used to deliberately waste it in front of guests to show off.
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My Comment: They have the sun .... and maybe the soil .... and they can control the water by irrigation. It should be good wine .... hmmmm .... maybe.
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