Château Kefraya

The de Bustros family, owners of a vast agricultural estate in the Bekaa Valley, built a castle on a hill there primarily to monitor troop movements in the late 1940s. Michel de Bustros saw it as an exceptional site for viticulture and undertook extensive work to establish the Kefraya vineyard on the estate’s hillsides. Thus, the first vines were planted in 1951, and it was not until 1979, in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War, that the first vintage of Château Kefraya was produced.