Batroun Wine & Food Festival

The ancient Phoenician coastal town of Batroun has, in recent years, become recognised as a genuinely serious wine terroir — its limestone hills above the Mediterranean now home to wineries producing increasingly acclaimed reds. Each September, the Batroun Wine & Food Festival celebrates this emerging district with a two-day celebration that pairs local wine with the town's fresh seafood.

Compared to Lebanon's larger wine events, Batroun's festival has a deliberately relaxed, low-key character — organisers and attendees alike describe it as one of the country's most easygoing wine events, blending local producers with a mix of Lebanese and international visitors drawn by the seaside setting as much as the wine itself. Around 5,000 visitors typically attend each edition.

For wine enthusiasts keen to look beyond Lebanon's more established Bekaa Valley producers, Batroun offers a window into a genuinely newer, still-developing corner of the country's winemaking landscape.