Everything Is a Miracle: More From Shiloh Winery with Amichai Lourie

In part two of our conversation at Shiloh Winery, Amichai Lourie takes us somewhere we didn't expect. Daniel asks him for one miracle, just one story from the vineyard or the winemaking room that he can point to and say, that was God. Amichai can't narrow it down. From vines planted on bedrock everyone said would never grow, to a harvest that keeps producing more wine than the math says it should, he makes the case that once you're paying attention, the ordinary stops looking ordinary.

This episode continues our conversation from Part 1 with Amichai, and If you haven't listened to part one, start there.

In this episode:

• Why Amichai couldn't give a single answer to "name one miracle"
• Planting vineyards on land everyone said was impossible
• The sixth-year harvest that consistently defies expectations
• A close look at the grammar of a Jewish morning prayer, and what it reveals about gratitude
• Faith and resilience during wartime in Israel

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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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Every bottle has a story, and this episode traces one of the biggest: how a 2,000-year-old exile ended up rebuilding one of the world's most exciting wine regions.

Daniel and Alana dig into the connection between biblical prophecy and the modern rebirth of Israeli wine — starting with Jesus's first miracle at the wedding in Cana, and the surprising historical fact that wine was one of ancient Israel's major exports.

In episode one, Daniel and Alana Elliott share how a 2017 wine-tasting trip to Israel turned into Israeli Good Wine, and why they believe God is still fulfilling ancient promises through the land's vineyards.

Welcome to Vintage Land. Hosts Daniel and Alana Elliott, co-founders of Israeli Good Wine, take you behind the scenes of the winemakers, stories, and faith that shaped their journey; starting with a 2017 trip to Samaria that changed everything. They talk about the winery owner who left a career in tech to fulfill a promise from Jeremiah, why wine appears almost 1,000 times in Scripture, and how the Sabbath tradition transformed their family's week.

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