Inside Israel’s long history of winemaking: from the Middle Eastern DNA found in every European grape to Rothschild’s new Zikhron Ya’akov wine park, already dubbed ‘northern Israel’s Napa Valley’

• Israel may sit behind top wine countries like France, Italy and Spain in oenophiles’ minds, but science suggests all European wines are made from a cross of grapes originally from Israel and Turkey
• Some 300 wineries across Israel produce 40 million bottles per year, with Zikhron Ya’akov, established near Tel Aviv by Rothschild in the 19th century, at the heart of a burgeoning wine tourism industry