According to the report, the wines cannot be sold in street shops, because of the Muslim makeup of the UAE, but will be sold in hotels and restaurants and other wine hotspots.

I guess that despite the UAE being a religious Muslim state, they still have tourists and less-religious locals, along with foreign residents.

Most interesting is that they did not just start out making a deal to import Israeli wines, something that on its own might be controversial enough in the day and age of BDS, but the first wines they have decided to import are from the Golan Heights!