Domaine de Bargylus is a wine estate on the slopes of the Coastal Mountain Range in Syria.
These mountains, known as Mount Bargylus in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, produced notable wines up until the rise of Islam.
[1] Domaine de Bargylus is managed by two brothers Karim and Sandro Saadé, with the assistance of renowned consultant Stéphane Derenoncourt.
Johnny Saadé shifted his activities to the wine making, tourism and real estate fields.
[citation needed] Other members of this Latakian family are Syrian intellectual and historian Gabriel W.Saadé (1922-1997) and his niece Leila Badre, a prominent Lebanese-Syrian archaeologist.