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Massaya Silver Selection Red 2010
Red Wine from Lebanon
Massaya's premium cuvée is a southern French blend of cinsault, grenache, cabernet and mourvèdre carefully made with the help of top Châteauneuf winemaker Daniel Brunier. The 2010 is excellent: round, exotic and elegant with firm, ripe tannins.
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Code: LE631
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Medium-bodied
- Grenache Syrah Mourvedre
- 14.5% Alcohol
- oak used but not v. noticeable
- Cork, natural
Massaya
Massaya’s story may go back over 40 years, but it is only in the last two decades that they have really cemented their name as one of the Lebanon’s most respected wineries.
In the early seventies, the Ghosn family acquired a table-wine growing estate in Bekaa Valley, historically the most famous and fertile wine-producing area in Lebanon and home to the temple of Bacchus, Roman God of wine. Initially they only used the grapes to distill Arak – a traditional Levantine spirit with a distinctive anise flavour – but their sons Sami and Ramzi grew up in the vineyards learning to love nature and developing a passion for wine.
Sadly, when civil war broke out in 1975 the Ghosn family was forced to leave the estate. Seventeen years later, Sami revisited a war-ravaged Massaya. The beauty of the land persuaded him to abandon his life as an architect in Los Angeles and convince his brother to leave his successful restaurant company in France: it was time for them to breathe new life into their beloved family domain.
To this day Ramzi controls Massaya’s marketing while Sami oversees the winemaking. They still make the family Arak, but their big success is their Rhône-like red wines. They have made the most of the French grape varieties they grow by seeking the wisdom of some top French producers – both Daniel Brunier from Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s Vieux Télégraphe and St. Emilion’s Dominique Hebrard own a share of Massaya and have helped it achieve success.
They in turn are assisted by the...