Episode Details

What does it take to prove a 2,700-year-old prophecy is coming true, one glass at a time?

In this episode of Vintage Land, Daniel sits down with Amichai Luria, a dear friend and one of the finest winemakers in Israel, at Shiloh Winery's brand-new visitor center. Daniel and Amichai first crossed paths back in 2018, when Shiloh was still operating out of a converted 1970s warehouse. Today it produces half a million bottles a year and has earned recognition from James Suckling, Decanter, and Wine Spectator. But how did a stretch of land that travelers once called desert and swamp become one of the most celebrated wine regions in the world?

Amichai takes Daniel, and listeners, into the archaeological evidence buried in the hills around the winery: ancient Shiloh, where the Tabernacle stood for 369 years before Jerusalem became Israel's capital. Then the conversation turns to something bigger. Could the mountains of Israel blooming again be the fulfillment of a promise written by the prophet Ezekiel nearly three millennia ago? And what does it mean to run a modern winery according to laws written for ancient farmers, including a sabbatical year for the land itself and a tithe that one accountant swore would bankrupt the business?

It didn't. Find out why.

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