IIn Iran, Farhad Bandesh had to make wine in secret. The Kurdish artist and musician had grown up intrigued by the sweet wines his family liked to drink, and started making his own in his early 20s.

“Wine is in our culture,” he says. “It’s in our history. But for more than 40 years [since the 1979 Islamic Revolution], wine has been banned in Iran. People cannot drink in public. So, we make wine in a separate way. For friends and family. Secret wine.”