Which Lebanese Grapes are Truly Indigenous?

Even the grapes are having an identity crisis

Sept’s Obeideh coming in during the harvest of 2019

Does identity change over time or is it something that is fixed? Who defines it –your DNA or your environment? In the case of Lebanon’s winemaking grapes, is it their lineage that makes them native or is it how they’ve grown into what they are? 

Obeideh, Merwah, and Meksassi are white grapes that have be…